Nov. 5, 2023
Unknown Broadcast | "Something on His Mind" "The Silver Shoe"

Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
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Oh, well, hello, the
hello there, my dear. I'm so
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happy to see you, well,
well to be to be quite frank,
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I kind of thought I would be
be gone after after Halloween. But here
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I am with you, with you. I'm very grateful for you, and
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so happy to see you here again. Please please have a seat. I'll
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keep the fire nice and warm for
you. For you, well, since
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we're here yet again, I suppose
i'll dust off a scary one for you,
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one that I know you'll enjoy,
because you do so enjoy being chill
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to the bowl. What's that?
Well, well, I can't really say
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for sure, but I'm getting the
sense that I am simply not going anywhere
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anywhere. You look quite perplexed.
Reminds me of Tonight's story stories, a
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story about a man with something something
on his mind. We'll listen to that,
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and just a moment, you'll enjoy
it, I'm sure, I'm sure,
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and a very good eving to you. Worry, well, well,
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what do you have? What do
you have? Okay? On you?
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Then I don't mind fancy somewhere a
bit quieter, like over there in the
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corner. Got a story to tell
you? Oh, remember the story about
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mending him. You tell me I've
got as good a one to tell you.
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I've been hoping i'd see you had
it straight from the Philly's mass speak
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were usual, Frank double scotches two
preez. There's something googlish in your manner
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this evening Warick, you're going to
try and scare me. Listen and see.
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I'm all ears. I won't make the
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obvious remark. One thing my story
it isn't for sale. Well what I
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mean is this, it's it's given
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to friend. But you don't make
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you're not that hard up for a
y yea claric, carry on interest me
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your story. It's a wild tale. Two planters interior of Borneo, and
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as usually as a woman, a
veritable golden haired Philly, only her mane
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a streak with gray, and there's
a great livid scar or wheel right round
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her neck. She's the wife of
George String at the other end of the
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triangle as Clifford Macy. The men
were partners on a small experimental estate far
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up in the interior. They'd been
at it for six years and were about
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to reap the fruits of their labors
very handsomely. And then Fring went on
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home leave and came back with a
bride. Her name was Rona, and
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that was the beginning of the trouble. Macy flirted, the landed, and
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then fell violently in love with her
bird. Don'biscain what bird a bird for?
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I give it a namer. A
bird's a bird. Tree is a
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tree? No, Peter, how
strange You've been here six years and you
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can't. But it's probably name is
it? A long tailed? Cloppy door?
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Scarlet speckled? Didn't shop on?
Have your cigarette? M stop looking
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at the door. He's forty five
miles away. It's all right, all
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right for you. We won't be
back to tonight. We've got all the
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time in the world. Peter,
and I would have plugged that bird or
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that he messed up a little scene, alright, relaxed. He was sweating
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with sorry madam, perspiring, But
you can say I wasn't brung up like
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you. Decent with tablecloths. I'm
pretty China and the vicanty tea on Sundays.
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Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. You don't do things by heart,
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do you? When you drink you
want to fight? Marry me already
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got one husband and know what I
mean. Let's clear outous plantation can go
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on, be sorry tomorrow money.
I like you, Peter, and I
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know what to be friends with you. The other night on the river,
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that was more than friendship. Run
one of the words you said. Then
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the worlds we inhabited friends? Friends? Yes, we were friends, but
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more and more? Or were you
pretending playing again? Yes, sir,
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No, Peter, I don't know. I can't design. Well, that's
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too bad you you got to a
shout out ballot you well shout are too
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busy sorting out their own love problems. Run to finish my cigarette? Do
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you like to drink? No,
I don't want to finish your cigarette.
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I don't want to drink either.
One. She fell between two stoos.
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You see so many women of a
certain type do. She began by being
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just friendly and kind, cheering a
lonely man up, and drifted into the
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eternal game of all womankind floating,
and then, well, too late,
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she realized she couldn't put the fire
ut either hers or Mace's. Thing was
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in many ways easy going, but
at the same time possessed of a curiously
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intense strain of jealous possessiveness. He
was generous too. If asked, he
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would gladly give away his last shirt
or crust, but let him think or
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feel that his rights were being taken
or curtailed. And he was a tough
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customer with rather primitive ideas. Macy
made no attempt to hide his feelings.
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The woman was sitting on a volcano
for her husband, of course, became
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suspicious. He watched though the cunning
of an iguana. You've frightened me all
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right? Mmm, rain, rain, rain slowed down the work on the
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plantation, hasn't he would it lose
as much money? Yeah? Not much.
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You're uh not looking well, looking
well? I said, not looking
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well, You're not darling. This
is rarely spelled. It's getting us all
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down. Why don't you go home
for a while. Oh yes, my
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love home Hampshire in June. Can't
you imagine it? It's only been eighteen
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months long, cool evenings on the
dams to see it. Bournemouth Concerts of
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Portsmouth. Jack wrote to say,
the world of harmonic is coming. You
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know you love music. There's no
chance here or the grammar her I think
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I want to go to England.
No, it's just it's just this eternal
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rain. I will right it over. The rains are darling. Your health
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comes first. My health is perfect. You look pale. Then you're known
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you to be so solicitous, George, Why I stay here out of duty
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to me, my dear, Please
Georgie, let's not talk about it anymore.
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Ah. I see you see Borneo
the Jungle. It's captivated, your
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one new complete play. You couldn't
bear to be away from it. England
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dreams of her rolling hills and green
Bell's gone forever. But it's like that,
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I like to go home one day. Or is it something else,
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something else that you that you don't
wish to leave at the moment. It's
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nearly the weather or someone else,
Yes, my goodness, of course,
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How could I have been so blind? That's someone else for my poor little
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Romana? How you must be to
play acting. I'm going to don't tell
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the way I'm talking to you,
Rona, Rona, I said, please
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do not walk away. Your husband
is talking to you. H that angel.
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But there is something I think we
ought to sort out. Well,
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my darling, I am going to
ask you a question. I have a
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little suspicion you'll see. If I
am wrong, I shall fall upon your
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feet and kiss them and be your
slave forever and beg your forgives us.
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Are you having an affair with my
partner, one Peter Macy, I started,
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darlings, I speak too softly.
Perhaps you didn't hear me, I
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said, I have watched month after
months, I have watched our worthy friend
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Macy become more openly ambarssed. I
have seen secret glances. I have seen
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the way the looks the pass between
you, the looks that become less and
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less less. God, neither of
you even cared. You teld me like
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an admitted to admit that you've been
deceiving me with don't too far, alright,
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I do show me, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, we love yes
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in four months so like a blithering
and sublime little idiot, she admitted it
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was all true, and after the
initial outburst, Fring took it like a
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lamb. In reality, he must
have been burning mad, a massive,
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white hot revenge unbknown to either Rona
or Peter Macy. He plotted his revenge
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and it must surely go down on
the annals of affairs such as this as
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one of the most diabolical ever contemplated. I feel like a new man.
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It's a lovely day to day.
I took a Grandpa headache powder, and
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Stains, grass stains, collar and
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cuff stains, ingrain, dirt,
soil and grime. Out they come,
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There came a lull before the storm.
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Fate played a hand. Macy went
sick with malaria, really ill, and
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George String had to admit the necessity
for Rona to nurse him practically night and
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day. Macy owed his recovery to
her but even so, convalescence was a
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long job. In the end,
Rona too crocked up through overwork, and
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Thryng had them both on his hands. This was an opportunity better than he
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could have planned it. It separated
the lovers and gave him complete control.
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The rains were over, the jungle
had ceased wintering, and spring was in
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the air. The young grass and
vegetation were shooting into life, new life.
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Concurrently, all the creepy, cruelly
insect life of the jungle and plantation
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was young and vigorous and hungry too. These facts gave the husband the germ
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of an idea which he was not
slow to perfect, an idea as devilish
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as man could devise. In Borneo, there was a kind of a mammoth
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ear wig of the as fine and
gossiper as a spine, as with as
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long as a good sized caterpinar,
and it lives on waxy secretions. These
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are integral parts of some flowers and
trees, and lie buried deep in their
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recesses. It's one of the terrors
of these tropics because it moves and rests
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so lightly on a human being that
one is practically unconscious of it, and
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like its English relation, it has
a decided liking for the human ear.
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It was a terrible plan to put
the giant earwig in Macy's hair, just
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above the ear. Once in his
ear, it's a thousand to one chance
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against it ever coming out the same
way. It would be impossible. To
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turn to back out would be an
impossibility, and so feeding as it goes,
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it would crawl right across inside the
head. Surely the rains aren't coming
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back again, George, are they? I don't think I can sash.
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No, no, no, no, that's just the old storm having a
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last blow. It's all over.
It's spring now that wady sweathearts. It's
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all over. Oh well, bere, I must go and minister to our
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other patients. Don't you want to
know how he is? How is he
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today? He should be pretty well
recovered by now. Oh he is he
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is, so don't be yesterday he
got way to get back to work,
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and must admit. I shall be
glad. There's a lot of work he's
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doing right now. This is the
year when all our pains are awarded.
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I think I'll get up tomorrow,
George. I can take some of the
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burden from you. Must have been
awful for you, having too in the
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lids around the place, mention it
those closest to me are sick. What
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am I to do? Several days
passed, Roona Thring began to nurse Macy
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in the last days of his recovery. It was late afternoon, spring was
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really in, as I say,
for the dark sun that's about already.
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That's fruit, that's something, and
slight the lamps for you. You care
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well for me, Rhona. I
wish I hid you with me all the
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time. Don't say anything else about
all that. It wins trying to forget
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now because what is it? My
room? But by you must rep That
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was the beginning. Barona did all
she could, but there was nothing to
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see, nothing to treat. Then
for a while Macy would be quiet because
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the earwig was quiet. Then the
vile thing would move or feed again.
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And Ring came each day to Macy's
bungalow. He was very helpful. Yew,
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drink that, o, man,
I think this is the best way
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to take the drug. It's foul
without water. Unbeknown to the wife or
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the lover, of course, friend
Thrying had cast the dose of pain relieving
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drugged down the sink, and Macy
was swallowing plain water. This way it
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dissolves and you can't even see it. George, We've got to get a
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doctor. I know you don't how
many miles that is read. No,
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it's okay. Just come with me. Grain. When I was a child,
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I used to have a wait.
The doctor's too far, miles and
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miles away. Impossibly, there's too
much work here, George. George will
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have to get the name, and
you have to be carried down the coast
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to the darling. We can't.
We can't lose him, the malaria and
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this thing. He's not strong enough, but yet the moment he's gained a
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bit more strength, we will.
And I promise you it could kill him
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if we took him now. And
so the work on the plantation went on.
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Rona nursed her former lover. Her
husband went about the task of running
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the plantation. The laborers labored.
The sun shone and in a small,
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dark and bungalow it was Macy's.
It's occupant lost weight and suffered the agonies
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of the damned gone Now we're all
thoughts of love, of illicit or otherwise.
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He could summon up no interest in
the lovely, golden haired woman who
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was constantly by his side. The
drugs were having an effect, because,
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of course, when she administered them, she did the job properly. Strangely
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enough, Macy didn't connect the relief
he felt when renegade in his drugs to
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a complete failure of those drugs when
the husband played nursemaid. During the days
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it passed an awful lot of creepy
crawleys down the plantation drainage system must have
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died. Their supply of painkilling medicine
must have been near to running out too.
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When the end came again, it
was late afternoon, dusk was just
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falling. Bats were flying about,
and they were heavy with fruit returning home
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good too much, too much Quaker, both ring and Rona were present.
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Macy must have suffered an excruciating pain, followed by a period of quiescence,
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and then feeling a slight tickling sensation
on his cheek. He put up his
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hand to rub or scratch. His
fingers came into contact with the ear wig
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and its fine gossamer hairs. He
naturally was curious and looked to see what
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he was holding. Slowly he realized
what did escape did escape only Thring kept
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quiet that, of course, was
a mistake. His silence worried Macy.
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Weak though he was, he looked
from Roona to George Thryng, and at
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the critical moment, George Thryng could
not meet his eyes. The truth was
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at Masie through the insect, now
dead from the pressure of his fingers from
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him, tried to rise and then
fell back slowly. George Thryng walked where
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the earwig had fallen, picked it
up and studiously examined it. And from
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his pocket he produced a magnifying glass
used daily for the inspection and detection of
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leaf disease on certain plants. As
Rona watched, she saw the fear and
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disappointment leave her husband's face, to
be replaced by a look of cunning and
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evil satisfaction. Then, for the
first time, he spoke, Maisie.
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Macy looked up. Thryng held up
the earwig. This is dead now,
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as dead as my friendship for you, as dead as my love for that
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that creature who was my wife.
It's dead dead, But it's a female.
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Did you get me this ear wiggs
a female, and a female lays
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eggs, and before I put it
in your hair, it was you haven't
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touched your drink cocoa? Man?
Oh oh shoo, I mean, oh,
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there was nothing anyone could say,
would do? Friend Macy made to
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get up and then fainted. Rona
ran screaming from the bungalow. Her husband
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followed, snatching as he went along, borneo native's knife from the wall.
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He caught her and slashed her marked
her neck. She's got the scar to
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this day. I think I'll have
another whiskey Macy. No, he died,
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of course. No doctor could operate. The thing had laid eggs in
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his brain. Thring was tried for
his murder. The wife Roner, told
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everything to the authorities, but nothing
was believed. Of course, I mean
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the story could never have happened,
could it. See he's a pretty wretched
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creature today her husband as hooples the
insane, so they say, anyway,
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he's in the lunatic asylum for life. So there it is, oh waiter,
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two double whiskys and Sodus. Please
chu soak, just soak in biotechs.
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Just soak, just soak in biotechs. Just soak, just soak in
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biotechs. If you have wondered how
to get your washing really stain free,
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understand this. Biotechs removes the stains
and dirt. Washing won't just soak,
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just soak in biotechs. Stains,
grass, stains, tiresome color and cut
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stains, ingrain, dirt, soil
and grime out. They all come.
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And you don't stir a finger,
just soak, just soak in biotechs.
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Biotechs with natural enzymes is the pre
wash powder with the most enzymes to give
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you extra pre wash powder absolutely no
rubbing, no color loss, no fabric.
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Weare use it for cottons, silks, woolen, synthetics, use it
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to make new again. Soaking in
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won't just soak, just soak in
biotechs. In beyond midnight next week we
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are broadcasting the Room. This is
a rather frightening tale in the great tradition
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of ghost stories. The room in
question is in the north wing of the
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house owned by a certain Missus Watts. The house has been in her family
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for many years, and the room
in the north wing has a very terrible
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repetition. No one who has spent
a night there has been found in the
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same condition as they went in.
When the door is opened The next morning,
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a Duke, a well known ghost
hunter and dabbler in the supernatural,
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slept in the Yellow Room, and
the results were terrifying. Before the great
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window was blocked in, one poor
inmate jumped to the ground below to his
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death. Missus Watts herself has never
dared spend more than a few minutes there,
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but she's an old woman now,
and by her own admittance, she
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can't bear the thought of dying without
knowing just what it is that haunts a
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person who spends a night in the
room. Consequently, she offers a thousand
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pounds, and Ronald Todd takes up
the offer. The haunting of Ronald Todd
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is eerie and inexplicable, and at
the very end of the story there is
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a surprise which might anger and puzzle, but will certainly intrigue. Beyond Midnight
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is presented every Friday night at half
past nine by Biotechs, the New Soap
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and pre Washed Powder. The program
is adapted for broadcasting and produced by Michael
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McKay o. Well, that was
quite a chiller. Happy to have you
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here. As always, I really
am quite surprised. Usually when the Wishing
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Hour comes on, how Lween I
I don't get to be here anymore.
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But well, don't look a gift
horse in the mouth. As my old
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old grandfather used to say, when
life is good, it's best not to
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ask questions. Of course, it
sounds more poetic in the original Aramaic.
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Well before you go, you go? How about one lover? This one
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is it's a little more whimsicals,
perhaps perhaps, or maybe just from my
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understandings, it's about the shoe shoe. I know, I know what mundaneus
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comes from. A story about a
shoe. Well, this shoe is very
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special. It's called the silver shoevers. Now why anyone would make a shoe
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out of silver silver? I don't
know. It touches the ground, it
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touches the dirt, dirt. But
maybe there is a reason, a reason.
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Let's listen and find out, and
I'll touch up your team. And
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now a tale well calculated to keep
you in spend in a moment act one
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of the silvers you written especially if
Suspends by Robert Reddick. There are some
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things that you just take for granted. I mean you don't question them,
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Like if somebody dies you've been at
a funeral and watch them lower the coffin
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into the grave. You just got
to say to yourself, that's the way
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it is. It's all over.
Maybe if you care a lot for somebody
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like I did for Worry, maybe
they go on living in a way in
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your mind, not really living,
but were kind of living in your thoughts
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and your memories and your dreams.
But that's all. So. When I
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saw this girl sitting in a drug
store two years after Corey's funeral, naturally
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I had to figure she was somebody
who just happened to look a lot like
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her. I mean, wouldn't you
do. I wouldn't have been shocked if
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she just been sitting there at the
counter drinking her coffee. But she was
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doing something that, well, I
guess I'd seen Cory do a hundred times.
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She was holding a spoon upside down, gabbing little strokes with it on
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her neck and like it was a
peak restaurant, imaginary little pictures on it.
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And when she spoke to the counterman, it was with Corey's own sweet,
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familiar voice. You let me have
a check mea sure, what'd you
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have? Talent tandwiching coffee? Okay, fifty beautiful? I guess I must
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have looked pretty strange standing there staring
at her, but I couldn't help myself.
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You want something, buddy, huh
oh yeah, cup coffee up at
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coffee coming up. I couldn't take
my eyes off her. I watched her
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pay the check, watched every movement
she made, every step she took as
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she walked go out of the door, and they were Corey's movements, Corey's
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steps, every one of them.
Kind of cute. Yah, What nice
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looking chick does? She come in
here a lot fat once in a while.
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She's one of the things worked down
the street of the dance hall.
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Is your coffee, thanks, I
don't want here's your dime? Huh oh,
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sure, dagger. I had to
shee doors away. There was an
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entrance lit up with a lot of
neon and stuff saying it was a dance
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hall, and I saw her walk
into it. It felt kind of funny,
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and I following her, but it
was some hot I couldn't do anything
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else. Inside there was this sort
of pink ceiling over a long flight of
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stone steps leading down into the dance
hall. Well. I bought a ticket
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of a little boots at the bottom, and then I went into this big
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room where the music was playing.
I didn't see her anywhere, but a
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bunch of other girls came running up
to the rail and started calling off to
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me, Sailor, I want to
stop here. You you gotta figurette sailor.
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I'm sure always get the pretty wat
alright, one made to pick me,
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honey? May I asked you,
sailor, one made to pick me?
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Well, I can't see very well. It's ups but it isn't.
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Let how about you dig down in
your bell bottom, honey and bring a
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lady up a match. I keep
up here, my fresh fucking well.
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Good for you. Here's the son
of the answers, honey, fifty girls,
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fifty gorgeous egotic dancing partners. Well, of course, even when this
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joint is jumping, there's only twenty
two of it. But I'm in the
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other part. Do you think I'm
gorgeous an exotic? Honey? Is that
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why you picked me by? I
don't think I know what you mean?
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You know what gorgeous means, don't
do sure? An exotic means weird?
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Honey? Come on, baby,
bund me some tickets, and while you're
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out there on the floor, holds
me tight in your arm. You can
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tell me how exotic. I am
oho, Well, I really came in
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here looking for somebody else. She's
about five with three and has light brown
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hair and blue eyes. It is
like half the girls in America decides,
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you don't see she ain't here?
Who told you she worked here? Anyway?
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Here this picture in my wallet.
She looks like this girl. Now,
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somebody's kidding you, do We ain't
got nobody here to look like that.
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Come in here. Look, I
ought to know. I've been working
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here for four years. I'll tell
you we've got no girl like that.
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Now, all like you, just
forget her and concentrate on me. Anything
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the matter with me? No,
no, do you bet their ring?
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Let us you run away standing.
I'm going in as part of my nose,
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and don't let any of these other
dames latch onto here. And when
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I come back, I will show
you the way a patriotic lady treats the
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name. She walked away. I
began to figure maybe I would mistaken after
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all about seeing Corey or this girl
coming in here, that maybe I lost
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her on the street, that it
was somebody else i'd seen in the neon
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light. And I was just about
to leave when I saw her again.
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Sitting alone at the table in the
half darkened corner clear across the room.
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She was dressed different now, and
a sort of spangly silver gown that left
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her shoulders bare. She looked just
like Corey did. Then I took her
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to the Mackendrick's Fall on a sort
of a daze. I walked across the
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dance floor and over to the table
where she was sitting. I guess she
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was thinking about something, because she
didn't look up until I was just about
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standing next to her. High high, How I saw you upstairs at the
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drug store. He's here. Yeah. She had a strange expression on her
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face, kind of like I figured
mine must have looked sort of surprised,
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or like she couldn't quite believe what
she was seeing. You know something,
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My face looked up just now.
It was almost like I knew you from
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somewhere. I knew you real well. I seemed to remind me of someone
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I can't remember who give me a
funny feeling, you know what I mean.
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She told me to buy her some
dance tickets at the Little Booth.
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Well I did, and then I
came back and I sat down with her
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at her table. I told her
how she reminded me so much of someone
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too. I've got a photograph of
her. I'll show it to you.
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There. That's Corey, well,
doesn't she looks she does. I'm sorry
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about following you down here from the
drug store, but oh, that's all
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right, Joy, you don't have
to apologize. I understand. How did
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you know my name? You called
me by my name? How is your
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name? Joey? H elect to
have it in mine? I call all
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sailors Joey till I get to know
him a little. How come? Oh
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I don't know? Just like that. Look, let's let's dance. Huh
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cool? I don't dance very well, that's all right, Joey. Just
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just hold me. And then she
took my hand in the same sweet,
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special way that Corey had a hundred
times of a thousand times before, gently
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tenderly, with her fingers lightly laced
in mine. I remembered that day more
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than two years ago, and I
was standing leaning against the outside wall of
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my house. My eyes were closed
because the sun was bright, and my
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head was back because it was nice
and warm on my neck. And while
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I was standing there like that,
Corey came over and quietly stood beside me
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the way, the same way,
with her head back and all it.
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She gently took my hand and laced
her fingers in mine, and she said
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so softly that I almost couldn't hear
it must be lovely on the beach.
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And I thought to myself, yeah, we're on the dunes. And just
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as if she could read my mind, she said, or on the deal.
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And the next thing I remember,
I was lying on a blanket in
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a hollow with sand nose all around, and the sun was blaze and hot,
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nice little and Corey turned over on
the blanket put her face next to
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mine, and she said, I
love you, Julie, And when we're
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old enough, I want to marry
you and have three children and live in
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a nice little house and have many
friends and books to read and record them
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from dress. And I want to
die if you would, in my arms.
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And then she cried. I suddenly
realized that I was holding this other
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girl in my arm, that we
were dancing. Why did you learn that
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step? The one you just did? R I don't know, just kind
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of like it. You said you
couldn't dance well, not very well usually
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me. We danced just fine together, comfortable and easy, like two people
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have danced together a lot. Yeah, you're not twenty one, are you?
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No? Twenty Oh you're supposed to
be twenty one to come in here
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or well, we won't tell Lily
Tuesdays. I'm only twenty myself, but
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they don't know that. Uh huh, she's just the age, Corey.
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I'm sorry. I just can't.
Of course you can. You're so much
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like her. It's all right,
Joy, I understand. You know.
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All the time we've been dancing,
I've been lost in memories too. Yeah,
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but mine as funny. And then
the day I keep getting a certain
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picture in my mind that makes no
sum What do you mean? But I
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see myself as a boy, the
one you remind me of, in a
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park. It's very quiet, and
the full moon lights of his face like
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I can't see robbery, and the
pictures clear. We're standing together looking up
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at a statue. The strange things. I don't seem to remember anything like
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that ever happening to me. I
had it did, but I did can't
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seem to remember. But I could
remember it. I could remember it very
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well. It was two years ago
and I was walking in Heatherton Park with
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Corey. There was a bright moon. Nobody else was there, nobody in
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the whole park. And she stopped
before the statue of Daniel Porter, who
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had said contributed more to the development
of something or other than any other man
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in the state. She looked up
at it as if she were going to
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mention something about it. She said, Doctor King said, I'm not will
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and I could tell from the way
she said that it was serious. We
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walked through the ark without saying another
word, and the next station she went
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away to the sanitarium. And three
months later she was dead. And Joey,
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what is it? She was asking
what was wrong? It was impossible
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to tell her. I was frighten. I tried to tell myself that there
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there were other parts of the other
statues, other movement knights. Somehow I
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knew Joey in the playout, what's
the matter with you? Could we go
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back and sit down here? Come
on, does you feel well? I'll
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be all right? That that park
you pictured in your mind? That statue.
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Yeah, you were standing with some
fellow looking up at a statue.
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Where was the moon low just over
his shoulder? What's the moon sort of
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low in the sky? Like I
was sitting there right over the shoulder,
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the statue. Yes, how could
you know that? Were you holding his
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hand? Oh? With your fingers
locked in his? Like? And then
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suddenly I saw it cupped in her
open palm, a small silver medadion that
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I'd made for Corey three years before. I cast it myself with the makeshift
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crycipal and moves. She used to
wear it on a chain. And what
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is that? Where did you get
that? What that thing in your hand?
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Let me see it? Give me
like the table. Grabbed it from
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her with my hands bruck against hers, and she dropped it. Where where
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is it? What did it?
Well? Too dark? You can't find
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the joy? Where did he go? Right? Why? How did you
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get that medallion? How did you
get time? I had a coin in
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my hand. What are you talking
about? There was no coin. Don't
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you think I can see? Drunk? No, when you turn some light
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talent and it's all right you sure? Yeah, okay, but better take
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it easy. Say look, we
don't want no trouble here, Joey.
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You don't know this place. You
make any trouble on the What is this
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all about? What are you trying
to do? Them? You listen to
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me for a minute. What are
you lying to me, for I saw
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it. I saw it in your
head, for joy, I need it.
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You make any trouble or anything,
and they'll call the shore patrol.
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They will look it's out of you. Okay, I'll turn in my tickets
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and change my clothes. We're not
supposed to take dates out of here.
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So you go on up to that
drug store and wait for me. I'll
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meet you a few minutes after your
God, I'll find it. I'll find
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what you're looking for. So I
went up to the drugstore and waited.
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I waited ten minutes, twenty minutes. I waited half an hour, and
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I went into the phone and I
called the damsel. Oh over you.
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This is the sailor who was in
there a little while ago. Oh what
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do you want? I'd like to
talk to that girl I was dancing with,
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you know the one. I mean, girls can't come to the phone.
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Why not? Was the war comments? Why not this girl? I
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was with? You? I get
lost? Will you you assume mean?
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Mister? I want you to put
that girl on the phone, endo,
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sailor, I'll stick your head up
pail someplace, willing to pull off.
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Hey fun of us phone? I'm
her and I want to find that guy.
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I'm not gonna here he is.
Look you're back again. Where he's
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taking my advice? Taylor? Where
is? She doesn't matter with you?
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She's still here? Look? What
are you making a steak ball? She
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said she'd meet me? Who did
this girl? Which girl? What's her
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name? It was? I old
dogs? Didn't tell me your name?
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Sailor this woman? No? Look
you see this guy in here? Shut?
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Who's he dancing with? Dancing with
nobody? I gave him a pitch,
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but he just walked over and sat
down by himself at the back table
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in the corner. He just sat
there, stare at the table park for
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about half an hour, and he
walked out, What are you? You
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remember me? Done? Johnnie?
He gave me a figurette Tell me what
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dancing with somebody for? What's the
matter with you? You came over to
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our table? Remember I was looking
for something? Who look at but noting?
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All right? Just about a minute, you're gonna get it. I'll
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back up you, hear me?
Not here here here? You see this
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he's a picture of some day he
showed it to me. He keeps saying
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he works there, he's crash or
something that's the wrong place. She don't
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work here, Let's go. I'm
telling you I was sitting with her,
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dancing with her. Where are you
are you doing here? Where are you
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really asked for a boy? You
know that? Don't you get your hands
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off me? I could get your
hands off you. I came to the
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next morning in sick Bay on the
ship. I couldn't do anything but lay
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there and think about this girl.
I told the ship's doctor about it.
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You've been under a great strain lately, Juey. I'm going to recommend that
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your duties be suspended for a few
days at least. You want me to
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stay here, yes, in sick
bay, that's right. What do you
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think I'm crazy or something? You
want to keep an eye on me?
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I said. You've been under a
strain, that's all. I don't think
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you've ever really gotten over the shock
of Corey's passing away. You've been thinking
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a lot about her lately, haven't
you. I mean, in these last
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weeks, before you even saw this
other girl in the drug store, Yeah,
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yes, I have. Well,
isn't it possible that you simply wanted
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her back so much that that my
imagination was playing tricks on me? Something
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like that. Yes, I want
you to stay right there in that bed.
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Well. I lay there for about
a week. I guess I was
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just about convinced that's the way it
was. I mean, it was the
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only thing I could think of that
seemed to explain everything. One day they
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told me I could get up,
and they brought me my clothes, and
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then I found a silver medadian in
one of my shoes. That's where it
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must have fallen when she dropped it. There's no question about it. It
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was the one I had made for
Corey at her funeral. At the reception,
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I had been the last one in
line to look at her. I
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reached into the coffin and placed the
medadion in her sweet cool hand, who
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gently curled her fingers over it,
and then they closed the lid. I
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never told that to the ship's doctor. Do you think guys should have soft
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spence? You've been listening to the
Silvers who written especially It was Suspence by
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Robert Reddick. Bence is produced and
directed by Freda Heard Into My Story,
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where William Mason, Tony Dona Dick, Keith, Rita, Lloyd Kerk,
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Drew Warner, and Ralph Camargo.
Music supervision by Eppa Hubert. Sound patterns
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by Walter Otto, Technical direction by
Michael Shotskis. This is Stewart Mett speaking
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ah after something scary. Nothing helps
more than listening to a delightful tune.
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I've always liked this tunes. I've
always always felt felt this tune too well.
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It looks like the sun is on
its way out, which means I,
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my dear, need to return to
where I where I came from.
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But how about I see you again
this task next week. I promise you
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I'll be if you promise you'll meet
me. But until then, as you
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make the long walk walk to your
beautiful home and lay your head down on
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your warm pillow, remember nothing lasts
forever, and try to be thankful for
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what you have h
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Oh, well, hello, the
hello there, my dear. I'm so
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happy to see you, well,
well to be to be quite frank,
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I kind of thought I would be
be gone after after Halloween. But here
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I am with you, with you. I'm very grateful for you, and
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so happy to see you here again. Please please have a seat. I'll
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keep the fire nice and warm for
you. For you, well, since
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we're here yet again, I suppose
i'll dust off a scary one for you,
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one that I know you'll enjoy,
because you do so enjoy being chill
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to the bowl. What's that?
Well, well, I can't really say
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for sure, but I'm getting the
sense that I am simply not going anywhere
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anywhere. You look quite perplexed.
Reminds me of Tonight's story stories, a
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story about a man with something something
on his mind. We'll listen to that,
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and just a moment, you'll enjoy
it, I'm sure, I'm sure,
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and a very good eving to you. Worry, well, well,
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what do you have? What do
you have? Okay? On you?
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Then I don't mind fancy somewhere a
bit quieter, like over there in the
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corner. Got a story to tell
you? Oh, remember the story about
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mending him. You tell me I've
got as good a one to tell you.
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I've been hoping i'd see you had
it straight from the Philly's mass speak
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were usual, Frank double scotches two
preez. There's something googlish in your manner
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this evening Warick, you're going to
try and scare me. Listen and see.
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I'm all ears. I won't make the
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obvious remark. One thing my story
it isn't for sale. Well what I
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mean is this, it's it's given
today free gratis and for nothing, friend
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to friend. But you don't make
two hundred guineas out of advice, and
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you're not that hard up for a
y yea claric, carry on interest me
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your story. It's a wild tale. Two planters interior of Borneo, and
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as usually as a woman, a
veritable golden haired Philly, only her mane
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a streak with gray, and there's
a great livid scar or wheel right round
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her neck. She's the wife of
George String at the other end of the
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triangle as Clifford Macy. The men
were partners on a small experimental estate far
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up in the interior. They'd been
at it for six years and were about
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to reap the fruits of their labors
very handsomely. And then Fring went on
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home leave and came back with a
bride. Her name was Rona, and
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that was the beginning of the trouble. Macy flirted, the landed, and
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then fell violently in love with her
bird. Don'biscain what bird a bird for?
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I give it a namer. A
bird's a bird. Tree is a
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tree? No, Peter, how
strange You've been here six years and you
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can't. But it's probably name is
it? A long tailed? Cloppy door?
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Scarlet speckled? Didn't shop on?
Have your cigarette? M stop looking
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at the door. He's forty five
miles away. It's all right, all
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right for you. We won't be
back to tonight. We've got all the
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time in the world. Peter,
and I would have plugged that bird or
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that he messed up a little scene, alright, relaxed. He was sweating
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with sorry madam, perspiring, But
you can say I wasn't brung up like
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you. Decent with tablecloths. I'm
pretty China and the vicanty tea on Sundays.
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Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. You don't do things by heart,
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do you? When you drink you
want to fight? Marry me already
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got one husband and know what I
mean. Let's clear outous plantation can go
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on, be sorry tomorrow money.
I like you, Peter, and I
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know what to be friends with you. The other night on the river,
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that was more than friendship. Run
one of the words you said. Then
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the worlds we inhabited friends? Friends? Yes, we were friends, but
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more and more? Or were you
pretending playing again? Yes, sir,
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No, Peter, I don't know. I can't design. Well, that's
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too bad you you got to a
shout out ballot you well shout are too
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busy sorting out their own love problems. Run to finish my cigarette? Do
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you like to drink? No,
I don't want to finish your cigarette.
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I don't want to drink either.
One. She fell between two stoos.
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You see so many women of a
certain type do. She began by being
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just friendly and kind, cheering a
lonely man up, and drifted into the
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eternal game of all womankind floating,
and then, well, too late,
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she realized she couldn't put the fire
ut either hers or Mace's. Thing was
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in many ways easy going, but
at the same time possessed of a curiously
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intense strain of jealous possessiveness. He
was generous too. If asked, he
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would gladly give away his last shirt
or crust, but let him think or
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feel that his rights were being taken
or curtailed. And he was a tough
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customer with rather primitive ideas. Macy
made no attempt to hide his feelings.
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The woman was sitting on a volcano
for her husband, of course, became
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suspicious. He watched though the cunning
of an iguana. You've frightened me all
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right? Mmm, rain, rain, rain slowed down the work on the
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plantation, hasn't he would it lose
as much money? Yeah? Not much.
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You're uh not looking well, looking
well? I said, not looking
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well, You're not darling. This
is rarely spelled. It's getting us all
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down. Why don't you go home
for a while. Oh yes, my
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love home Hampshire in June. Can't
you imagine it? It's only been eighteen
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months long, cool evenings on the
dams to see it. Bournemouth Concerts of
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Portsmouth. Jack wrote to say,
the world of harmonic is coming. You
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know you love music. There's no
chance here or the grammar her I think
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I want to go to England.
No, it's just it's just this eternal
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rain. I will right it over. The rains are darling. Your health
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comes first. My health is perfect. You look pale. Then you're known
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you to be so solicitous, George, Why I stay here out of duty
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to me, my dear, Please
Georgie, let's not talk about it anymore.
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Ah. I see you see Borneo
the Jungle. It's captivated, your
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one new complete play. You couldn't
bear to be away from it. England
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dreams of her rolling hills and green
Bell's gone forever. But it's like that,
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I like to go home one day. Or is it something else,
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something else that you that you don't
wish to leave at the moment. It's
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nearly the weather or someone else,
Yes, my goodness, of course,
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How could I have been so blind? That's someone else for my poor little
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Romana? How you must be to
play acting. I'm going to don't tell
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the way I'm talking to you,
Rona, Rona, I said, please
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do not walk away. Your husband
is talking to you. H that angel.
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But there is something I think we
ought to sort out. Well,
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my darling, I am going to
ask you a question. I have a
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little suspicion you'll see. If I
am wrong, I shall fall upon your
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feet and kiss them and be your
slave forever and beg your forgives us.
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Are you having an affair with my
partner, one Peter Macy, I started,
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darlings, I speak too softly.
Perhaps you didn't hear me, I
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said, I have watched month after
months, I have watched our worthy friend
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Macy become more openly ambarssed. I
have seen secret glances. I have seen
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the way the looks the pass between
you, the looks that become less and
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less less. God, neither of
you even cared. You teld me like
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an admitted to admit that you've been
deceiving me with don't too far, alright,
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I do show me, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, we love yes
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in four months so like a blithering
and sublime little idiot, she admitted it
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was all true, and after the
initial outburst, Fring took it like a
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lamb. In reality, he must
have been burning mad, a massive,
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white hot revenge unbknown to either Rona
or Peter Macy. He plotted his revenge
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and it must surely go down on
the annals of affairs such as this as
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one of the most diabolical ever contemplated. I feel like a new man.
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It's a lovely day to day.
I took a Grandpa headache powder, and
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I world's better when cos and flu
are about. Grandpa, headache powders are
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what you need. Grandpa, headache
powders work fast because they dissolve almost immediately.
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Grandpa makes all this blit for flu
symptoms disappear quickly. So whenever you're
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in pain, get fast relief,
get Grandpa headache powders. Ah, Grandpa,
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just so just soak in biotechs.
Stains, grass stains, collar and
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cuff stains, ingrain, dirt,
soil and grime. Out they come,
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and you don't stir a finger,
Just soak, just soak in biotechs.
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Biotechs with natural enzymes is the pre
washpowder with the most enzymes to give you
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extra pre washed power. Absolutely no
rubbing, no color loss, no fabric
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ware. Soaking in biotechs removed the
stains and dirt that washing won't. Just
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soak, just soak in biotechs.
There came a lull before the storm.
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Fate played a hand. Macy went
sick with malaria, really ill, and
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George String had to admit the necessity
for Rona to nurse him practically night and
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day. Macy owed his recovery to
her but even so, convalescence was a
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long job. In the end,
Rona too crocked up through overwork, and
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Thryng had them both on his hands. This was an opportunity better than he
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could have planned it. It separated
the lovers and gave him complete control.
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The rains were over, the jungle
had ceased wintering, and spring was in
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the air. The young grass and
vegetation were shooting into life, new life.
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Concurrently, all the creepy, cruelly
insect life of the jungle and plantation
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was young and vigorous and hungry too. These facts gave the husband the germ
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of an idea which he was not
slow to perfect, an idea as devilish
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as man could devise. In Borneo, there was a kind of a mammoth
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ear wig of the as fine and
gossiper as a spine, as with as
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long as a good sized caterpinar,
and it lives on waxy secretions. These
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are integral parts of some flowers and
trees, and lie buried deep in their
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recesses. It's one of the terrors
of these tropics because it moves and rests
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so lightly on a human being that
one is practically unconscious of it, and
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like its English relation, it has
a decided liking for the human ear.
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It was a terrible plan to put
the giant earwig in Macy's hair, just
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above the ear. Once in his
ear, it's a thousand to one chance
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against it ever coming out the same
way. It would be impossible. To
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turn to back out would be an
impossibility, and so feeding as it goes,
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it would crawl right across inside the
head. Surely the rains aren't coming
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back again, George, are they? I don't think I can sash.
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No, no, no, no, that's just the old storm having a
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last blow. It's all over.
It's spring now that wady sweathearts. It's
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all over. Oh well, bere, I must go and minister to our
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other patients. Don't you want to
know how he is? How is he
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today? He should be pretty well
recovered by now. Oh he is he
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is, so don't be yesterday he
got way to get back to work,
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and must admit. I shall be
glad. There's a lot of work he's
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doing right now. This is the
year when all our pains are awarded.
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I think I'll get up tomorrow,
George. I can take some of the
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burden from you. Must have been
awful for you, having too in the
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lids around the place, mention it
those closest to me are sick. What
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am I to do? Several days
passed, Roona Thring began to nurse Macy
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in the last days of his recovery. It was late afternoon, spring was
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really in, as I say,
for the dark sun that's about already.
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That's fruit, that's something, and
slight the lamps for you. You care
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well for me, Rhona. I
wish I hid you with me all the
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time. Don't say anything else about
all that. It wins trying to forget
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now because what is it? My
room? But by you must rep That
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was the beginning. Barona did all
she could, but there was nothing to
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see, nothing to treat. Then
for a while Macy would be quiet because
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the earwig was quiet. Then the
vile thing would move or feed again.
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And Ring came each day to Macy's
bungalow. He was very helpful. Yew,
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drink that, o, man,
I think this is the best way
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to take the drug. It's foul
without water. Unbeknown to the wife or
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the lover, of course, friend
Thrying had cast the dose of pain relieving
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drugged down the sink, and Macy
was swallowing plain water. This way it
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dissolves and you can't even see it. George, We've got to get a
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doctor. I know you don't how
many miles that is read. No,
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it's okay. Just come with me. Grain. When I was a child,
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I used to have a wait.
The doctor's too far, miles and
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miles away. Impossibly, there's too
much work here, George. George will
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have to get the name, and
you have to be carried down the coast
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to the darling. We can't.
We can't lose him, the malaria and
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this thing. He's not strong enough, but yet the moment he's gained a
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bit more strength, we will.
And I promise you it could kill him
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if we took him now. And
so the work on the plantation went on.
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Rona nursed her former lover. Her
husband went about the task of running
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the plantation. The laborers labored.
The sun shone and in a small,
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dark and bungalow it was Macy's.
It's occupant lost weight and suffered the agonies
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of the damned gone Now we're all
thoughts of love, of illicit or otherwise.
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He could summon up no interest in
the lovely, golden haired woman who
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was constantly by his side. The
drugs were having an effect, because,
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of course, when she administered them, she did the job properly. Strangely
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enough, Macy didn't connect the relief
he felt when renegade in his drugs to
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a complete failure of those drugs when
the husband played nursemaid. During the days
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it passed an awful lot of creepy
crawleys down the plantation drainage system must have
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died. Their supply of painkilling medicine
must have been near to running out too.
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When the end came again, it
was late afternoon, dusk was just
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falling. Bats were flying about,
and they were heavy with fruit returning home
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good too much, too much Quaker, both ring and Rona were present.
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Macy must have suffered an excruciating pain, followed by a period of quiescence,
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and then feeling a slight tickling sensation
on his cheek. He put up his
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hand to rub or scratch. His
fingers came into contact with the ear wig
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and its fine gossamer hairs. He
naturally was curious and looked to see what
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he was holding. Slowly he realized
what did escape did escape only Thring kept
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quiet that, of course, was
a mistake. His silence worried Macy.
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Weak though he was, he looked
from Roona to George Thryng, and at
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the critical moment, George Thryng could
not meet his eyes. The truth was
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at Masie through the insect, now
dead from the pressure of his fingers from
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him, tried to rise and then
fell back slowly. George Thryng walked where
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the earwig had fallen, picked it
up and studiously examined it. And from
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his pocket he produced a magnifying glass
used daily for the inspection and detection of
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leaf disease on certain plants. As
Rona watched, she saw the fear and
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disappointment leave her husband's face, to
be replaced by a look of cunning and
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evil satisfaction. Then, for the
first time, he spoke, Maisie.
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Macy looked up. Thryng held up
the earwig. This is dead now,
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as dead as my friendship for you, as dead as my love for that
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that creature who was my wife.
It's dead dead, But it's a female.
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Did you get me this ear wiggs
a female, and a female lays
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eggs, and before I put it
in your hair, it was you haven't
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touched your drink cocoa? Man?
Oh oh shoo, I mean, oh,
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there was nothing anyone could say,
would do? Friend Macy made to
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get up and then fainted. Rona
ran screaming from the bungalow. Her husband
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followed, snatching as he went along, borneo native's knife from the wall.
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He caught her and slashed her marked
her neck. She's got the scar to
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this day. I think I'll have
another whiskey Macy. No, he died,
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of course. No doctor could operate. The thing had laid eggs in
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his brain. Thring was tried for
his murder. The wife Roner, told
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everything to the authorities, but nothing
was believed. Of course, I mean
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the story could never have happened,
could it. See he's a pretty wretched
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creature today her husband as hooples the
insane, so they say, anyway,
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he's in the lunatic asylum for life. So there it is, oh waiter,
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two double whiskys and Sodus. Please
chu soak, just soak in biotechs.
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Just soak, just soak in biotechs. Just soak, just soak in
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biotechs. If you have wondered how
to get your washing really stain free,
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understand this. Biotechs removes the stains
and dirt. Washing won't just soak,
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just soak in biotechs. Stains,
grass, stains, tiresome color and cut
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stains, ingrain, dirt, soil
and grime out. They all come.
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And you don't stir a finger,
just soak, just soak in biotechs.
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Biotechs with natural enzymes is the pre
wash powder with the most enzymes to give
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you extra pre wash powder absolutely no
rubbing, no color loss, no fabric.
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Weare use it for cottons, silks, woolen, synthetics, use it
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to make new again. Soaking in
biotechs removes the stains and dirt that washing
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won't just soak, just soak in
biotechs. In beyond midnight next week we
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are broadcasting the Room. This is
a rather frightening tale in the great tradition
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of ghost stories. The room in
question is in the north wing of the
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house owned by a certain Missus Watts. The house has been in her family
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for many years, and the room
in the north wing has a very terrible
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repetition. No one who has spent
a night there has been found in the
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same condition as they went in.
When the door is opened The next morning,
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a Duke, a well known ghost
hunter and dabbler in the supernatural,
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slept in the Yellow Room, and
the results were terrifying. Before the great
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window was blocked in, one poor
inmate jumped to the ground below to his
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death. Missus Watts herself has never
dared spend more than a few minutes there,
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but she's an old woman now,
and by her own admittance, she
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can't bear the thought of dying without
knowing just what it is that haunts a
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person who spends a night in the
room. Consequently, she offers a thousand
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pounds, and Ronald Todd takes up
the offer. The haunting of Ronald Todd
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is eerie and inexplicable, and at
the very end of the story there is
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a surprise which might anger and puzzle, but will certainly intrigue. Beyond Midnight
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is presented every Friday night at half
past nine by Biotechs, the New Soap
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and pre Washed Powder. The program
is adapted for broadcasting and produced by Michael
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McKay o. Well, that was
quite a chiller. Happy to have you
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here. As always, I really
am quite surprised. Usually when the Wishing
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Hour comes on, how Lween I
I don't get to be here anymore.
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But well, don't look a gift
horse in the mouth. As my old
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old grandfather used to say, when
life is good, it's best not to
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ask questions. Of course, it
sounds more poetic in the original Aramaic.
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Well before you go, you go? How about one lover? This one
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is it's a little more whimsicals,
perhaps perhaps, or maybe just from my
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understandings, it's about the shoe shoe. I know, I know what mundaneus
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comes from. A story about a
shoe. Well, this shoe is very
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special. It's called the silver shoevers. Now why anyone would make a shoe
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out of silver silver? I don't
know. It touches the ground, it
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touches the dirt, dirt. But
maybe there is a reason, a reason.
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Let's listen and find out, and
I'll touch up your team. And
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now a tale well calculated to keep
you in spend in a moment act one
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of the silvers you written especially if
Suspends by Robert Reddick. There are some
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things that you just take for granted. I mean you don't question them,
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Like if somebody dies you've been at
a funeral and watch them lower the coffin
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into the grave. You just got
to say to yourself, that's the way
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it is. It's all over.
Maybe if you care a lot for somebody
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like I did for Worry, maybe
they go on living in a way in
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your mind, not really living,
but were kind of living in your thoughts
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and your memories and your dreams.
But that's all. So. When I
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saw this girl sitting in a drug
store two years after Corey's funeral, naturally
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I had to figure she was somebody
who just happened to look a lot like
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her. I mean, wouldn't you
do. I wouldn't have been shocked if
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she just been sitting there at the
counter drinking her coffee. But she was
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doing something that, well, I
guess I'd seen Cory do a hundred times.
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She was holding a spoon upside down, gabbing little strokes with it on
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her neck and like it was a
peak restaurant, imaginary little pictures on it.
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And when she spoke to the counterman, it was with Corey's own sweet,
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familiar voice. You let me have
a check mea sure, what'd you
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have? Talent tandwiching coffee? Okay, fifty beautiful? I guess I must
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have looked pretty strange standing there staring
at her, but I couldn't help myself.
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You want something, buddy, huh
oh yeah, cup coffee up at
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coffee coming up. I couldn't take
my eyes off her. I watched her
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pay the check, watched every movement
she made, every step she took as
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she walked go out of the door, and they were Corey's movements, Corey's
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steps, every one of them.
Kind of cute. Yah, What nice
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looking chick does? She come in
here a lot fat once in a while.
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She's one of the things worked down
the street of the dance hall.
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Is your coffee, thanks, I
don't want here's your dime? Huh oh,
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sure, dagger. I had to
shee doors away. There was an
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entrance lit up with a lot of
neon and stuff saying it was a dance
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hall, and I saw her walk
into it. It felt kind of funny,
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and I following her, but it
was some hot I couldn't do anything
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else. Inside there was this sort
of pink ceiling over a long flight of
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stone steps leading down into the dance
hall. Well. I bought a ticket
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of a little boots at the bottom, and then I went into this big
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room where the music was playing.
I didn't see her anywhere, but a
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bunch of other girls came running up
to the rail and started calling off to
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me, Sailor, I want to
stop here. You you gotta figurette sailor.
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I'm sure always get the pretty wat
alright, one made to pick me,
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honey? May I asked you,
sailor, one made to pick me?
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Well, I can't see very well. It's ups but it isn't.
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Let how about you dig down in
your bell bottom, honey and bring a
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lady up a match. I keep
up here, my fresh fucking well.
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Good for you. Here's the son
of the answers, honey, fifty girls,
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fifty gorgeous egotic dancing partners. Well, of course, even when this
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joint is jumping, there's only twenty
two of it. But I'm in the
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other part. Do you think I'm
gorgeous an exotic? Honey? Is that
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why you picked me by? I
don't think I know what you mean?
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You know what gorgeous means, don't
do sure? An exotic means weird?
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Honey? Come on, baby,
bund me some tickets, and while you're
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out there on the floor, holds
me tight in your arm. You can
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tell me how exotic. I am
oho, Well, I really came in
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here looking for somebody else. She's
about five with three and has light brown
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hair and blue eyes. It is
like half the girls in America decides,
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you don't see she ain't here?
Who told you she worked here? Anyway?
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Here this picture in my wallet.
She looks like this girl. Now,
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somebody's kidding you, do We ain't
got nobody here to look like that.
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Come in here. Look, I
ought to know. I've been working
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here for four years. I'll tell
you we've got no girl like that.
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Now, all like you, just
forget her and concentrate on me. Anything
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the matter with me? No,
no, do you bet their ring?
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Let us you run away standing.
I'm going in as part of my nose,
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and don't let any of these other
dames latch onto here. And when
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I come back, I will show
you the way a patriotic lady treats the
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name. She walked away. I
began to figure maybe I would mistaken after
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all about seeing Corey or this girl
coming in here, that maybe I lost
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her on the street, that it
was somebody else i'd seen in the neon
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light. And I was just about
to leave when I saw her again.
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Sitting alone at the table in the
half darkened corner clear across the room.
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She was dressed different now, and
a sort of spangly silver gown that left
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her shoulders bare. She looked just
like Corey did. Then I took her
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to the Mackendrick's Fall on a sort
of a daze. I walked across the
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dance floor and over to the table
where she was sitting. I guess she
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was thinking about something, because she
didn't look up until I was just about
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standing next to her. High high, How I saw you upstairs at the
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drug store. He's here. Yeah. She had a strange expression on her
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face, kind of like I figured
mine must have looked sort of surprised,
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or like she couldn't quite believe what
she was seeing. You know something,
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My face looked up just now.
It was almost like I knew you from
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somewhere. I knew you real well. I seemed to remind me of someone
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I can't remember who give me a
funny feeling, you know what I mean.
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She told me to buy her some
dance tickets at the Little Booth.
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Well I did, and then I
came back and I sat down with her
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at her table. I told her
how she reminded me so much of someone
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too. I've got a photograph of
her. I'll show it to you.
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There. That's Corey, well,
doesn't she looks she does. I'm sorry
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about following you down here from the
drug store, but oh, that's all
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right, Joy, you don't have
to apologize. I understand. How did
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you know my name? You called
me by my name? How is your
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name? Joey? H elect to
have it in mine? I call all
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sailors Joey till I get to know
him a little. How come? Oh
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I don't know? Just like that. Look, let's let's dance. Huh
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cool? I don't dance very well, that's all right, Joey. Just
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just hold me. And then she
took my hand in the same sweet,
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special way that Corey had a hundred
times of a thousand times before, gently
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tenderly, with her fingers lightly laced
in mine. I remembered that day more
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than two years ago, and I
was standing leaning against the outside wall of
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my house. My eyes were closed
because the sun was bright, and my
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head was back because it was nice
and warm on my neck. And while
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I was standing there like that,
Corey came over and quietly stood beside me
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the way, the same way,
with her head back and all it.
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She gently took my hand and laced
her fingers in mine, and she said
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so softly that I almost couldn't hear
it must be lovely on the beach.
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And I thought to myself, yeah, we're on the dunes. And just
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as if she could read my mind, she said, or on the deal.
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And the next thing I remember,
I was lying on a blanket in
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a hollow with sand nose all around, and the sun was blaze and hot,
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nice little and Corey turned over on
the blanket put her face next to
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mine, and she said, I
love you, Julie, And when we're
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old enough, I want to marry
you and have three children and live in
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a nice little house and have many
friends and books to read and record them
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from dress. And I want to
die if you would, in my arms.
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And then she cried. I suddenly
realized that I was holding this other
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girl in my arm, that we
were dancing. Why did you learn that
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step? The one you just did? R I don't know, just kind
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of like it. You said you
couldn't dance well, not very well usually
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me. We danced just fine together, comfortable and easy, like two people
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have danced together a lot. Yeah, you're not twenty one, are you?
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No? Twenty Oh you're supposed to
be twenty one to come in here
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or well, we won't tell Lily
Tuesdays. I'm only twenty myself, but
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they don't know that. Uh huh, she's just the age, Corey.
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I'm sorry. I just can't.
Of course you can. You're so much
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like her. It's all right,
Joy, I understand. You know.
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All the time we've been dancing,
I've been lost in memories too. Yeah,
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but mine as funny. And then
the day I keep getting a certain
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picture in my mind that makes no
sum What do you mean? But I
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see myself as a boy, the
one you remind me of, in a
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park. It's very quiet, and
the full moon lights of his face like
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I can't see robbery, and the
pictures clear. We're standing together looking up
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at a statue. The strange things. I don't seem to remember anything like
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that ever happening to me. I
had it did, but I did can't
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seem to remember. But I could
remember it. I could remember it very
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well. It was two years ago
and I was walking in Heatherton Park with
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Corey. There was a bright moon. Nobody else was there, nobody in
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the whole park. And she stopped
before the statue of Daniel Porter, who
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had said contributed more to the development
of something or other than any other man
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in the state. She looked up
at it as if she were going to
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mention something about it. She said, Doctor King said, I'm not will
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and I could tell from the way
she said that it was serious. We
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walked through the ark without saying another
word, and the next station she went
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away to the sanitarium. And three
months later she was dead. And Joey,
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what is it? She was asking
what was wrong? It was impossible
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to tell her. I was frighten. I tried to tell myself that there
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there were other parts of the other
statues, other movement knights. Somehow I
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knew Joey in the playout, what's
the matter with you? Could we go
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back and sit down here? Come
on, does you feel well? I'll
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be all right? That that park
you pictured in your mind? That statue.
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Yeah, you were standing with some
fellow looking up at a statue.
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Where was the moon low just over
his shoulder? What's the moon sort of
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low in the sky? Like I
was sitting there right over the shoulder,
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the statue. Yes, how could
you know that? Were you holding his
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hand? Oh? With your fingers
locked in his? Like? And then
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suddenly I saw it cupped in her
open palm, a small silver medadion that
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I'd made for Corey three years before. I cast it myself with the makeshift
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crycipal and moves. She used to
wear it on a chain. And what
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is that? Where did you get
that? What that thing in your hand?
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Let me see it? Give me
like the table. Grabbed it from
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her with my hands bruck against hers, and she dropped it. Where where
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is it? What did it?
Well? Too dark? You can't find
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the joy? Where did he go? Right? Why? How did you
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get that medallion? How did you
get time? I had a coin in
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my hand. What are you talking
about? There was no coin. Don't
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you think I can see? Drunk? No, when you turn some light
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talent and it's all right you sure? Yeah, okay, but better take
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it easy. Say look, we
don't want no trouble here, Joey.
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You don't know this place. You
make any trouble on the What is this
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all about? What are you trying
to do? Them? You listen to
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me for a minute. What are
you lying to me, for I saw
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it. I saw it in your
head, for joy, I need it.
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You make any trouble or anything,
and they'll call the shore patrol.
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They will look it's out of you. Okay, I'll turn in my tickets
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and change my clothes. We're not
supposed to take dates out of here.
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So you go on up to that
drug store and wait for me. I'll
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meet you a few minutes after your
God, I'll find it. I'll find
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what you're looking for. So I
went up to the drugstore and waited.
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I waited ten minutes, twenty minutes. I waited half an hour, and
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I went into the phone and I
called the damsel. Oh over you.
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This is the sailor who was in
there a little while ago. Oh what
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do you want? I'd like to
talk to that girl I was dancing with,
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you know the one. I mean, girls can't come to the phone.
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Why not? Was the war comments? Why not this girl? I
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was with? You? I get
lost? Will you you assume mean?
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Mister? I want you to put
that girl on the phone, endo,
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sailor, I'll stick your head up
pail someplace, willing to pull off.
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Hey fun of us phone? I'm
her and I want to find that guy.
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I'm not gonna here he is.
Look you're back again. Where he's
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taking my advice? Taylor? Where
is? She doesn't matter with you?
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She's still here? Look? What
are you making a steak ball? She
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said she'd meet me? Who did
this girl? Which girl? What's her
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name? It was? I old
dogs? Didn't tell me your name?
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Sailor this woman? No? Look
you see this guy in here? Shut?
478
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Who's he dancing with? Dancing with
nobody? I gave him a pitch,
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but he just walked over and sat
down by himself at the back table
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in the corner. He just sat
there, stare at the table park for
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about half an hour, and he
walked out, What are you? You
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remember me? Done? Johnnie?
He gave me a figurette Tell me what
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dancing with somebody for? What's the
matter with you? You came over to
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our table? Remember I was looking
for something? Who look at but noting?
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All right? Just about a minute, you're gonna get it. I'll
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back up you, hear me?
Not here here here? You see this
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he's a picture of some day he
showed it to me. He keeps saying
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he works there, he's crash or
something that's the wrong place. She don't
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work here, Let's go. I'm
telling you I was sitting with her,
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dancing with her. Where are you
are you doing here? Where are you
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really asked for a boy? You
know that? Don't you get your hands
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off me? I could get your
hands off you. I came to the
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next morning in sick Bay on the
ship. I couldn't do anything but lay
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there and think about this girl.
I told the ship's doctor about it.
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You've been under a great strain lately, Juey. I'm going to recommend that
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your duties be suspended for a few
days at least. You want me to
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stay here, yes, in sick
bay, that's right. What do you
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00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:37.880
think I'm crazy or something? You
want to keep an eye on me?
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I said. You've been under a
strain, that's all. I don't think
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you've ever really gotten over the shock
of Corey's passing away. You've been thinking
501
00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:53.119
a lot about her lately, haven't
you. I mean, in these last
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weeks, before you even saw this
other girl in the drug store, Yeah,
503
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:05.239
yes, I have. Well,
isn't it possible that you simply wanted
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00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:10.719
her back so much that that my
imagination was playing tricks on me? Something
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00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:15.880
like that. Yes, I want
you to stay right there in that bed.
506
00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.280
Well. I lay there for about
a week. I guess I was
507
00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:35.440
just about convinced that's the way it
was. I mean, it was the
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00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:40.599
only thing I could think of that
seemed to explain everything. One day they
509
00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:46.239
told me I could get up,
and they brought me my clothes, and
510
00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:53.679
then I found a silver medadian in
one of my shoes. That's where it
511
00:54:53.760 --> 00:55:00.440
must have fallen when she dropped it. There's no question about it. It
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was the one I had made for
Corey at her funeral. At the reception,
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I had been the last one in
line to look at her. I
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reached into the coffin and placed the
medadion in her sweet cool hand, who
515
00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:28.360
gently curled her fingers over it,
and then they closed the lid. I
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00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:40.840
never told that to the ship's doctor. Do you think guys should have soft
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spence? You've been listening to the
Silvers who written especially It was Suspence by
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Robert Reddick. Bence is produced and
directed by Freda Heard Into My Story,
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00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:07.159
where William Mason, Tony Dona Dick, Keith, Rita, Lloyd Kerk,
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Drew Warner, and Ralph Camargo.
Music supervision by Eppa Hubert. Sound patterns
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by Walter Otto, Technical direction by
Michael Shotskis. This is Stewart Mett speaking
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ah after something scary. Nothing helps
more than listening to a delightful tune.
523
00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:37.320
I've always liked this tunes. I've
always always felt felt this tune too well.
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00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:42.559
It looks like the sun is on
its way out, which means I,
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00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:46.679
my dear, need to return to
where I where I came from.
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00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:54.719
But how about I see you again
this task next week. I promise you
527
00:56:54.840 --> 00:57:01.880
I'll be if you promise you'll meet
me. But until then, as you
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make the long walk walk to your
beautiful home and lay your head down on
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your warm pillow, remember nothing lasts
forever, and try to be thankful for
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what you have h














