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Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Gregory Peck, as star of The Lonely Road.

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Suspense!

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Okay, Lieutenant. Give me a question and I'll...

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Thanks, Doc.

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Well, hello, Gare. How goes it?

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Oh, not bad. You want a statement, I suppose?

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Mm-hmm, that's right.

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Well, tell me first, is she apt to get the extreme penalty?

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Well, that'll depend a lot upon what you have to say.

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I see. Well, I'll give it to you straight.

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I'm counting on you to do your best for her.

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Sure, sure. Now go ahead, shoot.

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The first time I saw Jenny, she was coming along the road carrying the suitcase.

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I knew she was headed for our place because it's the only house from miles around there.

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I was trimming the hedge and I got as far as the rear gate when she reached it.

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I waited for her to speak.

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Is this the Gare place?

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That's right. What can I do for you?

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You had an ad in the paper for a girl to do general housework.

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Oh, yes, of course.

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Well, come along into the house. My wife will want to have a talk with you.

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This is a beautiful place you've got here, Mr. Gare.

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But it's certainly hard to get to.

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You've walked from the highway?

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Yeah. Must have been almost five miles.

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The sun is something fierce. I almost gave up.

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Don't any buses run along here?

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No, we're pretty isolated.

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If there's help in the house, I always manage to give them a lift into town.

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That makes it nice, Mr. Gare.

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What's your name?

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Jenny.

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Jenny what?

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Jenny'll do.

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All right, Jenny, in here, please. And Mrs. Gare is a trifle hard of hearing,

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so you'll have to speak up a bit.

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Oh, Helen, this is Jenny. She's come in answer to our advertisement.

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Oh, yes. I'm very glad to see you, Jenny. Won't you sit down?

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She was extraordinarily looking.

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Not beautiful or pretty.

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Striking, I guess, would be the word.

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She had heavy black braids wound about her head.

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Her eyes were a clear green and looked straight through you.

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She was lean and powerful, like a young animal, a leopard or a panther or something.

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Well, my wife engaged Jenny.

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That night she cooked an excellent dinner and served it well.

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She had on a purple skirt and a...

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cerise, I guess you'd call it, blouse, and I could see Helen eye it with this favor.

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Every time the girl came close to me, I...

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I could feel the strength of her.

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And those green eyes watched as if she was sizing us up.

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We took our coffee and cigarettes out on the veranda after dinner.

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You can look right over the orange grove to the hill. It's nice.

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Steve, what do you think about Jenny?

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Oh, well, it's a little early to judge. Seems capable enough.

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That was a darn good dinner, if you ask me. Maybe we're in luck, darling.

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Maybe. What issue do you think?

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Mexican?

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No, I'd say Slavic with that build and shape of face.

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A little more coffee, Helen. Half a cup.

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You're probably right.

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There's a sort of, oh, gypsy arrogance, boldness about her that makes me...

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I was pretty exhausted every night with all the physical work I had to do.

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Jenny's room was downstairs on the same side of the house as ours in the rear.

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Her light was still on.

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She was getting ready for bed and her shadow, huge and black, lay across the lawn.

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Her arms were raised to take down those heavy braids.

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There was something actually classic about the thing.

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The picture of it stayed in my mind long after I'd gotten to bed.

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Well, two or three days went by and Jenny, well, the thing was you were conscious of her all the time.

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Wherever she was about the house, whatever she was doing, you thought about her.

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I was working in the garage one afternoon when she came out there with the butcher knife.

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Mrs. Gair says you have a whetstone out here.

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Can I get you to sharpen my knife for me, Mr. Gair?

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Of course, just a moment.

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What's that you're doing?

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Oh, I'm trying to mend this old bear trap.

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Oh, are you a trapper, Mr. Gair?

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Oh, no, hardly. There's a coyote around that's been stealing the chickens.

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I'm hoping to catch him.

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There, now then, let's have the knife.

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What do you do, Mr. Gair?

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Well, Jenny, Mrs. Gair was a concert pianist at the time of our marriage.

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I was a manager. Now I take care of her properties, holdings, investments, you know.

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You mean you sign things for her like checks and papers and things?

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Parl but telly, yes, that's part of it.

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Hmm. Pretty soft for you, huh, Mr. Gair?

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Oh, on the contrary, it's quite a job. Keeps me busy.

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I still say you've got a pretty set up, but she didn't get such a bad deal herself.

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She's crazy in love with you. Anybody can see that.

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Why not? You're good looking, Mr. Gair, and young.

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You must be at least, at least 12 years younger than she is.

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Now here's your knife, Jenny. Careful now, it's like a razor.

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Thanks a lot. That's the way I want it. I can't stand a dull knife.

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So I'll probably bother you often.

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A few more days went by.

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I finished my trap and set it out near the chicken run hoping I'd catch my thief.

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And one night after dinner, we were in the living room.

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What's the matter, Helen?

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Oh, Steve, it's that girl. She was standing there in the dining room door listening.

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Jenny? Well, she probably likes music. What's the harm?

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Oh, it isn't that. She's always listening and watching.

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It's beginning to get on my nerves.

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How about her work?

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Oh, well, she works hard enough. She's willing and clean as a pin.

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But I have a feeling she doesn't respect me, that I just don't figure in her scheme of things.

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She's just simply taking the place over. I don't even run my own house anymore.

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Fire or why don't you?

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Oh, no, I couldn't.

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I'll say the word and I'll do it for you.

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No, no, I don't want you to.

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Steve, frankly, I'd be afraid to tell her to go.

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She might get ugly and set fire to the house or something.

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Oh, I've never heard such nonsense in my life.

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What is it, Helen? Aren't you well?

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I'm just terribly nervous, Steve. Maybe that's why she takes advantage.

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Well, that's settled that.

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I feel like a heel though, because I was relieved that Helen didn't want to fire Jenny.

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I was obliged to admit to myself that the girl was getting under my skin.

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Any little service she had to perform for me.

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She made very special, standing as close as she dared.

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I could feel the magnetism of that strong, perfect body.

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Her hair smelled like new apples, and those clear green eyes would linger caressingly in mine.

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Then after about two weeks, one night it must have been one or two o'clock.

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Steve, Steve, wake up.

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What's the matter?

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That girl, I think she's out there in the hallway. I think she's been in this room.

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Oh, Helen.

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I'm frightened, Steve. Please make a light.

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Oh, all right.

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No one around. Helen, you must have been dreaming, dear.

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Perhaps I was. I dream about her often, Steve.

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Horrid, confused kind of dreams.

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I'm trying to scream for help and can't. It's just...

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Good Lord, Helen. I never thought anybody could get you down.

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You've got to control yourself somehow. This is just plain silly.

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Yes. Yes.

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I turned out the light and got back into bed.

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In a little while, I could hear Helen's even breathing and knew she was asleep.

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I lay there, thinking about Jenny, of course. I never thought of much else.

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In a moment, I heard the piano.

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So faint, I thought I was imagining it. And it came again. Weird. Ghostly.

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I got up again, put on my robe, and slipped downstairs.

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The living room was dark, except for the moonlight pouring through the window.

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I was in a state of shock.

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I thought I was going to die.

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The living room was dark, except for the moonlight pouring through the window.

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And Jenny's figure, black against the light, was moving towards me.

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Almost before I knew it, she pressed close against me, crushing her mouth to mine.

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It was like being stung. Sharp, sweet, terrible.

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Jenny, what is this?

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Don't kid me. You knew this was coming. That it had to come, that nothing could keep us apart.

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Now everything's going to be all right.

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But... but Jenny... we can't. Helen is no fool.

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We can't let her stand in our way.

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What... what do you mean?

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It won't be hard. Just a matter of figuring the best way.

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I don't know what you mean, Jenny. And we can't stay here talking nights any longer.

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It'll be just you and me, Steve.

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And all that money. Think what we can do with it. Just think.

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Are you crazy?

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Yeah. Crazy for you. Just like you are for me.

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Listen, Steve. Inside of five or six years, you're going to be stuck with a deaf old woman.

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What you're going to do? Sit here and grow old with her? Not you.

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Sooner or later, you'll clear out. So why not now? With me.

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Why? It's not so simple as you make it sound, my dear.

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All you have to do is to spread around the town that Helen's going to visit her folks.

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Mississippi or someplace. And leave her to me.

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Afterwards, you can say your wife's decided to stay down south.

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That you're going to... going to sell out and join her.

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Then we can turn everything into cash and we're on our way. Easy?

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The next few days I worked outside till my hands bled.

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And my whole body shrieked with pain. To keep from thinking, I began having nightmares.

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I'd wake up in a cold sweat and lie there longing for daylight.

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Swearing that as soon as morning came, I'd throw that girl out of the house.

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But she'd brush against me or touch my hand. And I'd be wild for her again.

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I guess I knew then that sooner or later I'd agree to nearly anything she asked.

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For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Gregory Peck in The Lonely Road by Marion Orth.

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Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines.

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Discover why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine.

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And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Gregory Peck,

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who as Stephen Gare in The Lonely Road, continues a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Helen began to get on my nerves.

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It seemed that every day she looked older, washed out, became deffer.

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I began to despise her, to wander out of my way, out of Jenny's in my way.

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One morning at breakfast, Jenny came in and stood there looking at me fixately.

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Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Jenny came in and stood there looking at me fixately.

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Well, Jenny, what is it?

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If you're going to town today, Mr. Gare, I've written down some things for the house.

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Very well, Jenny. If you're list ready, give it to me. I'll be leaving in a few minutes.

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I knew what she meant. She was getting impatient.

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A reply, which she waited for with those green eyes fixed on mine, was virtually a consent to her plan.

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As for me, I wasn't sure what I meant to do, but I thought it would do no harm at least to set the ball rolling.

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In town, I dropped into the garage and asked the mechanic to look the car over.

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I said Mrs. Gare was planning a trip to visit her family in Mississippi,

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but I'd have to drive her into Tucson to take the train, and that my tires weren't so good.

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Really, Mr. Gare, you're thinking of selling that beautiful place of yours?

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Oh, it's just a possibility. I don't want any prospective buyers about the places yet,

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but my wife is planning a trip south and I may follow her and remain there permanently.

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Help's such a problem. Place of ours takes a lot of handling.

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A fellow gets fed up after a while.

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Well, there'd be no difficulty disposing of the property, Mr. Gare.

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Just let me know when you're ready, and meanwhile I won't bother you with people coming.

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I drove home in a sort of trance.

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I wasn't shocked at what I'd done, and the thing was still wide open if I wanted to back out.

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When I got home, I didn't want to go into the house.

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So far I'd had no luck with the coyote, so I busied myself setting the trap in another spot.

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While I was doing this, Jenny came out with that butcher knife again, and we went into the garage.

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Helen was at the piano.

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Did you do what I told you to see?

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Yes.

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Good. I can't stand this much longer.

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All right, Jenny, but I can't bear to be here when...

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Kiss me, Steve.

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Don't worry. It'll be when you're out of the house.

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She didn't say any more, just looked at me with a twisted little smile.

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I gave her the sharpened knife, and she kissed me and went into the house.

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At dinner that night, Helen said...

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I had words with Jenny today, Steve.

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I can't have her around any longer.

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You can fire her tonight, if you will.

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What? Oh, no, my dear.

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I offered to do it once, and you wouldn't let me.

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Now you'll just have to do it yourself.

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Steve, I'm afraid of her terribly.

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Why, has she been ugly, threatening?

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Don't shout so, Steve. I'm not as deaf as all that.

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And she'll hear you.

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No, no, she hasn't threatened me, nothing like that.

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There's just something about her that I don't know.

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There's just something about her that fills me with horror.

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You're imagining things, Helen.

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What possible reason could she have for harming you?

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I don't know, but this house has become a dreadful place.

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I'm cold all the time, and I'm shaky.

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And you seem different. You look at me sometimes as if you hate me.

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Now, see here, Helen...

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Don't try to reason with me.

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If she doesn't get out of this house quick, I'll lose my mind.

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She's like a witch or something malignant or evil.

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Jenny came in just then to change the plates for dessert.

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As she bent over to take the platter, she held that knife in her hand in such a way that...

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my blood ran cool for a minute after she'd gone out.

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You haven't noticed it, but lately I haven't taken a mouthful of food until I've seen you start to eat for fear she'll poison me.

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That's ridiculous. Why shouldn't she poison me as well?

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Because she's crazy about you.

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Oh, for heaven's sake.

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And you're crazy about her.

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Don't deny it, Steve. I may be deaf, but I'm not blind, you know.

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Look, Helen, I'm going into town for a drive.

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If you want to fire Jenny while I'm gone, that's all right with me.

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I tried not to dwell on the immediate events, but...

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but to think about the time when I'd be free to go away with Jenny.

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The drive into town seemed endless, but at last I pulled up in front of the hotel.

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Good evening, Mr. Gare. Come for the papers?

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Yes, and a cigar, maybe, Fred.

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I looked around the little lobby.

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There wasn't a soul in there that I knew.

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I watched the people.

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One minute feeling sorry for them because their lives were so drab,

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the next ending them because they were so secure, simple.

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I was sitting there staring unseeingly at the local paper

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when I suddenly came out of this trance or...

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a spell that I'd been under. The shock of realization was frightful.

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I didn't want anything to happen to Helen.

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I prayed to heaven I'd get home in time.

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I kept recalling the time when I was in town.

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I kept recalling similar instances of such crimes I'd read in newspapers.

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I'd always wondered how people could become involved in such things.

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Well, I knew all about it now.

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A weak fool to let a coarse preacher like that lead me into such a thing.

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If only I could be in time.

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I'd throw that girl out and devote the rest of my life to making Helen happy.

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Helen, generous, loving, intelligent and talented.

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Why hadn't I thought of all this before?

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Then I saw the car.

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It was parked at the side of the highway right at my turnoff.

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I knew it was a police car.

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I cursed to myself and prayed,

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don't let them take long. I've got to be in time for Helen. Please.

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An officer stepped out into the road and waved his flash.

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Please, I said to myself. Please.

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Hello.

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What's up, officer?

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Oh, looking for a stolen car, but not a baby like that one.

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A local car, was it?

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Yeah.

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You'd better let me have a look at your operator's car.

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You must have been doing about 80 along that stretch.

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Oh, sure. Here you are, officer.

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Sorry I was overdoing it. I was just in town and I...

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I guess I stayed longer than I intended.

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My wife's alone in the house and not very well in a...

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How's in a hurry to get home?

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You live down this road?

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That's right.

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Say, maybe that car could have got down in there. I think I'll...

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No, no, no. I... I mean, I... I would have seen it.

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Ah.

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Okay, Mr. Gare, just take it easy, will you?

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Yeah. Certainly will, officer. And thanks. Good night.

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I didn't know what to do. I stood there in the doorway, looking up.

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There was a light upstairs in the window of our bedroom.

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It threw a radiance on the screen door and burned with a...

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a steady glow as if it... as if it had been burning like that for ages.

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As if it had witnessed a scene of horror and brooded over it,

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keeping the secret to itself.

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When I started finally for the house, my legs were so stiff I could...

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I could scarcely walk.

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I stayed off the gravel, walking on the grass, and went in the back door.

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There wasn't a sound.

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I tiptoed through the kitchen, through the dining room, across the hall.

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Then I could see the light from that lamp spilling down the stairway

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at the far end of the dark living room.

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My heart pumped so loud I could hear it.

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I wanted to call out, but I didn't dare. Whom would I call?

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Perhaps everything was all right.

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Perhaps Helen was up there in bed. How I prayed she was.

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I hesitated on the threshold, thought of glancing into Jenny's room,

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but that would have looked queer if... if nothing had happened.

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I stepped over the threshold.

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Ah! It was that trap, that bear trap.

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Somebody had placed it there, ready for me.

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Who? He was excruciating. I wrenched him. Who did the thing?

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Helen! Jenny! Somebody!

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Come and give me a hand!

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Who is it? Help me!

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Hurry, I'm caught in this trap.

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Get the hammer, pliers, anything!

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She reached the bottom of the stairs and snapped on the lights.

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I've never seen such a sight in my life.

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There was blood all over the place.

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On the wallpaper, the white paint.

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Then I saw Jenny, lying on the floor in a crumpled heap,

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her long braids soaking in... Helen's dress.

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Her hands and face were spattered with it.

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Her hair was disheveled. Her eyes like pinpoints of fire.

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And against her side I could see the gleam of that long, sharp knife.

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She was coming slowly towards me.

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Oh, we were beautifully caught, Jenny and I.

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She with her knife, I with my trap.

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Helen! Don't look like that!

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What's happened?

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You planned this together, you two.

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But it didn't turn out just as you thought it might.

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Helen, please don't look at me like that.

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Well, there she is. Look at her.

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If I hadn't been ready for her, I'd be lying in her place

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and you'd be glad, wouldn't you, Steve?

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No, no. Helen, Helen, you insane, drop that knife for heaven's sake.

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Listen to me.

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She came closer, I made a lunge for her.

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With the grip of that steel above my leg,

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threw me off balance and I fell forward.

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She sprang on me. I fought her off, but that knife came at me.

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Face, throat, everywhere like flashes of lightning.

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Helen, don't do this to me!

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I swear I came back.

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Helen, don't!

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Well, Lieutenant,

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that police car arrived in time to save my life.

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But I...

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I wish they'd let her finish the job.

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Then and there.

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Okay, Gare.

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Okay, thanks.

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I'll send the doc right in.

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And Gare, I wouldn't worry too much about Helen.

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I think she'll be all right.

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and Kathy Lewis, who enacted the role of Helen in tonight's play.

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Captain Duncan McClain.

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