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Ah, it's good to see you
back. How are you, my dear?

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I hope you've been staying warm and
comfortable as the winter pushes its way

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further and further into our well,
into the marrow of our bones, as

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it feels. I want to take
this special day, this day of thanks

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and poultry, to say just how
much it means to me to have you

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here with me late at night,
to have you here with me, tuning

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your radio, dial around, hoping
to eat, spend another spooky evening with

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me. It means everything, my
dear, It means everything, indeed,

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So now please get comfortable. If
you have some leftovers, maybe you'll heat

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them up first. But I have
another one for you, one that I

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hope you enjoy as much as I
do. As I do, it warms

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my cold heart to have you here
with me. Suspense Auto Light and It's

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ninety six thousand Dealers Present Miss Idelopino
in the Bullet, a suspense play produced

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and edited by William Speed. Hey, Sonny, what are you doing out

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so late? And holy smoke with
nothing on but a ribbon? I'm not

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late, I'm really Let's see that
ribbon well nineteen fifty just call me happy

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I see happy New Year at me. By the way, what do you

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do? Oh, I sell auto
light resistor spark plugs, auto light resist

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spark plot You mean you haven't heard
of auto light resistor spark plugs, those

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perfectly perky, persistent performers that let
your engine idle smoother, run better on

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leaner gas mixtures, save gas.
Where I come from, we ride around

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on stars, not cars. Oh
well, anyway, auto light resistor spark

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plugs with that exclusive built in ten
thousand dollme auto light resistor have two hundred

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percent greater electrode life, cut down
spark plug interference with radio and television.

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Say, young fella, now that
you've come down to Worth, you'll be

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using a car, So take a
tip, see your friendly auto light spark

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plug dealer and get us out of
auto light resistor spark plugs, long recognized

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for their dependability. You're always right
with autolite And now with the bullets and

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the performance of our storm. As
idol Apino as Ruth Martin with Eliot Lewis

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as her husband, Harry, auto
light hopes once again to keep you in

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suspect and Ruth turn around, Ruth, No turn around, Ruth, I've

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got the gun in my hand,
please, Harry, please pressing the trigger.

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Will it be this time, Harry, Don't don't do this to me?

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Will it be this time, Ruth? Will it be this time?

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Yes, Harry, Yes, this
time, this time I die. And

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it was like drowning, going down
for the last time, everything flooding through

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my mind. A step by step
we'd come to this point, neither one

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of us wanting to. And the
day Harry came back from prison, meeting

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me in the station, pale,
haggard and a suit two sizes too big,

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nothing left but a stupid pride and
me. Well, I suppose I

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was quite a shock to Harry.
He looked at me so strangely way as

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we walked back to the parking lot
for the car. What you do to

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yourself? You're so changed for the
better? I hope, just change now?

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Is that being a lant glance?
When I came out of the kitchen

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to take off the business, Harry, while you were away, I had

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a change from my apron. Had
to dye your hair too, had to

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become a real glamour girl. Huh
not dress? Is that one of ours?

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How's the business going? You hardly
mentioned it in your letters. Holding

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its own better than that? Just
about triple do our volumes? Since you

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went away? Well, here we
are the car. Here's the car,

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this chromium wonder, sure it's yours. Here's the key. Go on,

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we can afford it. Little lady
really took over it. It was a

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starter right there, Oh Harry,
somebody had to take over when you went

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away. After all, dress styles
are changing all the time. Don't have

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a chip on your should Another thing? What's this one? You went away?

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Routine? Like? Maybe I went
to China. I took a chance

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in my business and I lost,
so they dumped me into the Hooskaw for

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three years. I'm not ashamed of
it. So that you're going the wrong

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way, Harry, Well, I
guess I know the way to my own

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house. But we live in a
new house. Something really special. What

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goes on here? What's wrong with
you? I did the best I could

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to keep things going. There's nothing
to be jealous of. Jealous, Oh

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Harry, why are we fighting?
Oh yeah, that's right, We've got

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nothing to fight about. I'm back
in the business and you can go back

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to taking care of the house,
cooking. No, I keeping things looking

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nice no, Harry, letting your
hair get back to the color it used

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to be. I can't do it. Well, we'll see, baby.

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Look, I don't want to be
the boss, thanks, but I can

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be of help to you. Sure
have nice hot dinner waiting for me when

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I come home from work. We
can afford a cook for that. Now,

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cook, You're all the cook we
need, Harry. I'm not the

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same anymore. I just can't sit
home and wait for you to come and

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tell me what the world's all about. Then you're gonna have to learn,

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Baby, You're just going to have
to learn. But nothing worked out the

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way Harry planned it. He finally
couldn't keep me home. He put me

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in a corner in the office,
set out to prove he didn't need me

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at all. Only three years is
a long time to be away from anything

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when you buyers. The buyers didn't
know him, they knew me. No,

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this is not what I wanted,
mister Martin. Well i'll show you

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something else. Got plenty of time. Can't really say that I have,

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didn't. I see missus Martin in
your office when I came in today.

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Well, she's just getting things in
order before she retires. Back to the

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kitchen. She always knows exactly what
I want. Could you send for her?

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Please? But I'm sure I can
show you mind. No, No,

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I wouldn't mind. One blow after
another. It is stupid pride.

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Most of the workers had never known
Harry. They were used to taking their

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orders from me, but he had
to show them he was still the big

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shot. Stop that machine. Huh. Oh, yes, sir. I

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want these coats cut with a flare
three inches longer. But Missus Martin,

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Missus Martin worked out that's sign out
on the front window, says Harry Martin.

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Oh yes, sir, but but
nothing cut it the way I told

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you. But these new machines Missus
Martin installed, they don't operate like that.

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That's why we changed over. I
see, So shall I do it

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like missus Martin said, sir?
Yeah, just like Missus Martin said.

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It got so we were like two
strangers. Harry wouldn't even look at me

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anymore. I think he actually began
to hate me. And then the final

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thing he began finding out about George. Oh listen, I'm no angel,

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but three years I'm not trying to
defend myself. It's just that it's terrible

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to be lonely, and George came
along and treated me like like I was

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somebody to respect, somebody with dignity. Well, then I began to realize

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that when I took the car someplace, Harry's car would bob up behind me,

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follow for a few blocks, then
disappear. I'd be shopping in a

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store, suddenly Harry's face would begin
to weave in and out of the crowd,

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then disappear. Or coming into the
office one day and finding Harry had

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put an extension on my phone,
I was being stifled. I couldn't breathe

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anymore. I didn't dare see George
anymore. I hardly dared phone him.

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So it's like prohibition of any kind
began to be important George. It never

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really meant very much to me,
but now I started thinking he was the

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only thing I had to hang onto. And Harry all was playing little chokes,

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setting his little traps, Like the
morning he left for the office early,

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some business to take care of.
Hearing his car back out of the

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garage, moved down the street,
thinking I was free for a few minutes,

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free to call George after all these
days, Hello George, Ruth Darling,

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what have you been. Why haven't
I heard from you? Oh,

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George, I wanted to cut George? Who? George? Who? What's

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the full name? Baby? I
heard you leave? Did the gardener take

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the card of the gas station?
Dial George again, Baby, finish the

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conversation. Listen, you're driving me
crazy with these traits. What's wrong with

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you? Here's the phone? Dial
them again? Who are you talking to?

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The Beaver Knitting Mill? George Baker? He's one of their sales.

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Why did you hang up so quick? He startled me? What are you

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doing? Of course, three years
is a long time. Three years ago.

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The Beaver and Knitting Mill never opened
before nine. Harry, you must

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have dialed wrong. Baby, there's
no answer. Sneaking around behind my back,

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spying on me, checking on my
phone calls, Harry. I'm not

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going on this way. I'm not
going to let you drive me crazy.

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What do you think you're going to
do about it? I want a divorce?

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You mean that? Yes? He
must be quite a guy. Listen

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to me, you listen, lady. Okay, it's a deal. You'll

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get your divorce, but on my
terms, lady, all the way down

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the line. What kind of tombs? I know all about? The laws

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in the state fifty to fifty on
everything. But it's not going to be

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that way with us. You give
me a release, giving me the whole

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business, and you're free as the
air. Give you the business, but

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I built the business. There was
nothing left when you went to prison.

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That's my deal, kiddo. My
whole life is tied up with that business.

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I work. It's the deal.
Why are you doing it, Harry?

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Because whoever this bum is, there's
no one whoever he is. I

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got a hunch when he hears you're
not bringing half the business as a dowry,

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his great loves is just gonna shrivel
up and die. That's what you

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believe? Is it exactly all right? Harry? You draw up the papers,

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Ruth. I just don't know what
to say. But to be free,

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free to be with you dog?
What kind of freedom is it when

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you have to grub for a buck? That kind of freedom you can feed

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to the pigeon. George, don't
talk like that. We're not a couple

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of nineteen year old kids running off
on a motorcycle. If you give up

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your business, how are we supposed
to live? That's the only way he'll

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let me go. Then don't go. He was right. What he said

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about you was right. If he
said I didn't care for you very much,

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then he was wrong. But if
he said I like it nice with

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enough money coming in to make it
comfy, and how, he was right?

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Shut up? What was that for? Because I'm honest with you.

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Aren't you even going to say goodbye? You know I can't say goodbye?

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No, I can't be alone.
I've got to have somebody. Well,

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never was a baby. Call I
see you tonight? No, will you

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call me? I feel I don't
know lost. I'll be at the office

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tonight. I'll be there alone waiting
for your call. George, will you

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call me? All right? Ruth, be there at ten, I'll call

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you. He wasn't that important to
me. I wanted affection and love from

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somebody so much George would be calling
at the office at ten o'clock. It

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seemed that's all there was for me. I walked, I sat in the

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park, I waited a telephone call
from George. When I got to the

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building, I looked up at our
windows dark, not a light on the

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whole floor. When I got to
the outer door of the office, I

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stopped and listened, not a sound. I went inside, found the light

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switch. Oh, I've been waiting
for your ruth. Where have you been,

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Harry? Why were you waiting here
in the dog I tried to take

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a snooze, just stretched out here
from I haven't been sleeping much lately.

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Yes, I know you neither have
bet No, not much. Uh.

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I have the paper. I left
it here on your desk. Paper.

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That's all very legal. You relinquish
all claims for the business, then I

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bow out of your life. No, these lawyers, they can find words.

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What did you say. I've changed
my mind. I'm not going to

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sign it. It's the only way
I'll give you a divorce, and we'll

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just have to forget about the divorce. I want you to sign this paper

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route I won't, Harry, and
I don't want to argue about it.

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Wait, yes, I know who
he is. Baby, What are you

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talking about? I'm talking about George
Groves. Groves, George Groves. You've

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been giving him money. That's a
lot. Found this deposit slip weeks ago

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in your writing, made out to
his bank accounts three hundred dollars. This

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deposits sipped two hundred dollars, and
this one two hundred and fifty dollars.

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Who is he? You're not getting
out of here until you tell me who

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he is, Harry. I wanted
to tell you, but I just couldn't.

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Who is he? He's he's a
gambler, gambling. Who are you

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kidding? You asked me, so
I told you. Now I'm going Wait.

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That doesn't make sense. You you
never gambled. Well, I was

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like a lost dog, nothing to
do, no one to tend to.

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I lost that money and quite a
bit more, Ruth, if that were

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true, it is true. There
isn't any other man. There never was.

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George Grove is a gambler here.
You shouldn't keep these things lying around,

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Baby, I've got to go,
Harry, Ruth. Since I got

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off that train a month ago,
I've been acting like like I don't know

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what you think. We've got any
chance to start all over again right from

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the beginning, Baby, I don't
know area. I can't think straight.

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Let's go someplace. Let's not talk
about it here. You're right, here's

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where all the troubles started. Let's
get out in the air. Yes,

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come on, sure, a gambler. I bet he really took you to

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the cleaners. Well, you know
something. I'm not sorry at him,

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not a bit. Oh wait,
let me turn out to the last well,

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hurry, okay, now, let's
get now your phone. I don't

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understand. We'll be calling it this
out. Nobody must be a wrong number.

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Come on, even, come on, at least answer it might out

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take you No what well, it's
on my line, then you answer it.

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Why are you going to your extension
as to the phone, Ruth,

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you're starting it all over it after
the phone. Answer the phone, Ruth,

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that's the phone you almost had me
believe in your fairy tale. You

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almost made it. Harry listened to
it. I want you to do sign

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this release and clear up. No, you heard what I said, Ruth.

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I'll never sign it. Okay,
that's one last trick, baby.

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Look what I got in this drawer. I asked you to look. Harry

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put away that gun. I want
you to get a good look at it.

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It's called a war souvenir. Only
if you don't sign this release.

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You know what, baby, someday
I'm going to kill you with this gun.

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Somebody else say to you, Ruthie, I'll give you three seconds to

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sign this release. One Harry,
two, don't Harry three. No,

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it's a matter of ruth. You
try to kill me, I'll be silly.

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I told you it was a trick. The gun's harmless. It's unloaded.

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See why did you do that to
me? What put it away?

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That's strange. You know it's not
loaded, and you're still afraid. He's

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the beauty of the trick, Ruth. That's why someday you're gonna break down

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and sign that release. You see, you'll never know just when it will

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be loaded. You'll never know.
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Idolopino with Elliot Lewis in the bullet
a tail well calculated to keep you in

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suspend. That night, I made
up my bed on the couch in the

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den. Just hearing him walk,
knowing he was in the house, kept

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me awake. I locked the door
and I lay there and I must have

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dozed off in spite of myself.
As I came awake with a sudden violence,

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fresh air was fanning my face.
That couldn't be the window had been

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shut, and now the window was
open. Harry, you don't sign the

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release. Someday, I'm going to
give you three seconds one, Harry,

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don't shoot me. Harry, shoot
you. You must have had a bad

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dream. I don't even have the
gun reading to kill you. Yes,

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he has a gun, George,
I'm coming to you. You've got to.

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But I follows your hear and kiss
of both of us. Does that

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make everything just? Standy? Luck? Ruth? Do me a favor?

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Will you kind of forget this address
from now on? But George, don't

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say that. Sorry, but you've
got to help me. What can I

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do? You can go to the
police. Police, you know, threatening

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somebody's life is slightly illegal. Yes, yes, the police. Yes,

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of course they'll help me. Oh
yes, George, that's very smart of

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you. They'll help me. I
went to the police, told them what

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Harry was trying to do, instructed
one of their men to go with me

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and investigate it. When we reached
the lobby of the office building, I

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couldn't go on. I was afraid
of face Harry when the policeman would find

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the gun. What's the matter,
missus Martin? Well, I I think

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I better wait down here. You
don't need to be afraid. Come on,

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please, it's on the third floor, officer. You see the name

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on the reception door. The minute
you get off the yellow Please do you

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mind? You're really scared, aren't
you all right? All right, I'll

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be down soon enough. Began to
feel a sense of relief. Harry wouldn't

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terrorize me any longer. Soon the
officer would bring him down. He'd be

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off to police headquarters, and then
I'd swear out a complaint. The time

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he got out of jail, I
would have started proceedings of my own to

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divorce him. Then I started to
cry at that. I don't know why,

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just standing there and waiting, And
then I began to wonder what they

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were doing up there so long.
More than a half hour had gone by.

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When the elevator door opened, I
expected to see Harry being pushed along,

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handcuffed. The officer was all by
himself and he was smiling. Well,

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no, I just had a nice
chat with your husband. You've been

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worrying for nothing, missus Martin.
But the gun. Oh sure, I

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saw the gun, just to wars
over there. It's not even loaded.

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He doesn't have ammunition for it,
but someday it will be loaded. Some

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day. He's going to kill me, he said, that kill you.

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Why. He's in love with you, crazy about you. How he feels

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pretty bad about this. He did
it just as a you know, just

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as a foot No, no,
I tell you, he says, if

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you're gonna go and get scared,
he'll never do it again. But listen

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to me. Now, look,
why don't you go on upstairs. He

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wants to apologize for scaring you like
this. He's a very nice gun.

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I tell you. He's going to
kill me. I'm not just upset,

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like he said, you've been working
too hard. You ort to rest up.

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I don't care what you think.
I want him arrest it. But

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threatening me with a deadly weapon,
an empty gun, that's not a deadly

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weapon. Now listen to me.
No, you listen to me. Even

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if I wanted to, there's nothing
I could do as long as that gun

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is empty, it's not a deadly
weapon. And we can't touch him in

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this state. That's the law,
Missus Martin, go ask a lawyer about

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it. Anybody who knows the law
knows that. I'm afraid. If we

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can actually prove, Missus Martin,
that your husband wanted to kill you,

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then you could put him away for
years, for years, it's right.

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But he can't hurt you with an
empty gun. And as long as that

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gun is empty, we can't touch
him in this state. That's the law.

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So there was nothing. I could
do. Nothing until there was a

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bullet in the gun. I could
do nothing to it. Then the answer

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came to me. It was so
simple, so obvious all the time.

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What would happen if I put the
bullet in the gun? It was late

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Saturday afternoon, the offices were closed. I went to the desk where he

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kept the gun. I found the
caliber marked alongside the barrel, thirty one

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point six. Put the gun back, closed the drawer. My heart was

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pounding. I kept saying it all
the way to the gun shop. Thirty

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one point six, thirty one point
six, thirty one one point That must

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be a foreign, mate, don't
have any bullets of that caliber? Well,

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do you know any place that does
carry them? No? Not unless

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you wrote to maybe one of the
big outfits back east. That would take

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so long. Of course, a
thirty two shell would work just as well,

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if you weren't so fussy. No, that'd be fine. I'm not

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at all fussy. I went back
to the office, took out his gun,

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broke it open, and I opened
my purse, took the bullets out.

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Years in prison. That's what the
lawyer said. Well, it'd serve

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him right after what he made me
go through. I forced the bullets inside

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the gun and then closed it.
Now it was a deadly weapon. Put

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the gun back in the drawer.
I went to my desk to call the

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police. Now they'd see the gun
for themselves. Now they'd see Harry planned

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to kill me. Years in prison. Yes, that's what I wanted him

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to get. Polly said, this
is missus Martin. My husband has just

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threatened me with a loaded gun.
Had just a moment, Missus Martin,

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now connect you with surgeon. Was
Harry calling George Ruth. You think yourself

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clever, don't you know? I'm
not very clever. I thought i'd take

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a ride in the country, thought
it would relax me. Nothing seems to

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relax me. Everything going up hot
around here. I'll be going still not

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interested in this release? Huh,
I've told you a million times, Well

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see you later. What's you're rush? You're not interested in the release,

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and maybe you might be interested in
this souvenir, Harry. Turn around?

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Look at it, Ruth. It's
part of the little trick you know.

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No, I said, turn around. Isn't it remarkable? Even after all

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this time, it still fills you
with terror? Put the come down,

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Harry. Some day it's going to
be like I always said, don't stop

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that again. Day I'm going to
say, Ruth, I'll give you three

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seconds to sign that release. Why
no, two, no, no,

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don't shoot. I'll sign it all
right, go on, but put the

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gun down on the desk. First, sign the pants, sign it all

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right? All right there now,
please put down the gun. All right?

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So I finally wore you down.
No, I've got the gun.

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What do you think you're gonna do
with it? There's something you don't know,

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Harry, that should interest you very
much. This gun isn't empty anymore.

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Oh, it's loaded. That's what
you were doing in the Sporting Goods

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show. You followed me everyway,
haven't you. Yeah? I was in

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love. The gun has loaded Harry, So give me back the paper,

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not this, Harry. If you
don't give me back the release, I'm

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gonna count three, just like you
remember, and then I'm gonna pull the

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trigger, only this time it won't
just click. So give me back the

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paper, all right, one,
I tell you there are bullets in this

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gun. I may have it.
Ruth, give me the paper, give

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me the gun, Ruth, I
mean to Harry, I'm jill you,

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Ruth. I can't. I can't
hurt you anymore. I can't. You

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stop to cry, Ruthie, Baby, if you want the guy, you

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can have him, and you'll share
the business too. The whole works if

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you want it. I never wanted
anyone but you, Harry. I must

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have been crazy the things I've been
doing, like a crazy dream, like

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it wasn't really me. Could you
ever understand what went on inside me?

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Could you try to understand? Do
you think you could? Ruth? Yes?

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I could try? Baby? Hey, Hey what I said? Don't

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cry? Please don't cry, Let
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by Auto Light Tonight's star Idelopino with
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two days. Officially by young fella
and happy. Oh no point in my

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wishing him happy New Year. But
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Danny Kaye will be our star.
The play is called I Never Met

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the Dead Man, and it is, as we say, a tale well

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calculated to keep you in suspense.
Tonight's suspense play was produced and edited by

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William Spear and directed by Norman MacDonald. Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian

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Morowake and conducted by Lud Bluskin.
The Bullet is an original radio play by

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Larry Marcus Idololpino, appeared through the
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Fear. Soon to be released in
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Forget Me Stairsday same time, Auto
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that one, but enjoyed it even
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at gmail dot com. Send me
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love reading every little morsel of them. But now, speaking of morsels,

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I think it's time I get myself
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time for you to get cozy in
that warm, safe bed of yours.

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Until tomorrow, my dear, thank
you again, play call you your Stack