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Suspense! Mr. Brian Dunleavy, a star of Out of Control, a suspense play produced, edited, and directed by William Spear.

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I arrived in Gatlinburg around 10 in the morning. I checked in at a hotel called the Mountain Inn, went downstairs to breakfast.

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My dog Schnucki went with me, as she always does. I gave my order to the waiter, and as I sat there, I looked the place over.

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It was a good-sized room, by the echo in it. There was a log fire crackling in a fireplace on the far side of the room, and a large view window on my right.

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Glass has a special kind of echo. There was only one person in the room when I entered. It was a woman, apparently a wealthy and rather vain woman, judging from her perfume.

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She was sitting at a table diagonally across from me. I looked in her direction, so to speak. I heard a man's footsteps approaching across the room, and smelled fresh polish on riding boots as he went past me.

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He paused before her table.

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Well, if it isn't Mrs. Dennis Fillmore. Hello, Marsha.

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Walter Crane.

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Are you surprised to see me?

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What do you want?

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I hear your husband is thinking of running for governor.

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So what?

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Well, Marsha, I've got a newspaper clipping here. I thought it might interest him. It's about your pal, the late Eddie Hasson.

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What about Eddie?

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I'll read you their headline.

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Eddie Hasson killed in auto crash. Colorful Reno figure plunges from Mountain Road. Car out of control, say police.

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Dennis, never knew you.

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I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I never mean to. But as some people can read what's on the marquee of a movie theater ten blocks away, the most intimate conduct and conversation comes to me from across the room as it's spoken into a microphone.

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This is a dubious pleasure for me at most times, but as Marsha Fillmore and Walter Crane continued, my interest became more than casual. He was reading again from the newspaper clipping.

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And here at the bottom of the article, Marsha Hanley, hostess at the Blue Parrot Hasson's gambling club, is beneficiary of an insurance policy.

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Miss Hanley was the late Mr. Hasson's companion and was to have been married to him upon his divorce decree becoming quinal.

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Well?

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I was just wondering if your brand new politically minded husband would be interested in the fact that you were known locally as a gangster's companion.

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You always were a louse, Walter, but I never thought you'd stoop to blackmail.

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Look, I lost a good job because of you, Marsha. When an insurance investigator gets fired because his employers think he's too susceptible to beautiful dames, he never gets back on the racket.

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I've got to look elsewhere for a source of income. And it so happens there are some things about Eddie Hasson's accident that might interest my former employees.

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Eddie's car got out of control and that's all there is to it.

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Look, you seem to forget, baby, I investigated that case for Pacific All-Risk before they paid off.

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And I didn't tell all the things I knew or all the things I thought because, well, you were making life very interesting for me in those days.

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Well, Marsha?

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You're wasting your time, Walter.

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Am I?

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Get out and take your clipping with you.

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Well, you can't blame a man for trying. Oh, waiter?

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Yes, sir?

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Bring me a glass of water, will you? Ice water.

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What, something wrong, ma'am?

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No, nothing's wrong.

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Get the water.

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Yes, sir. Right away.

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Why did you do that?

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What?

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Nothing, skip it.

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Oh, the ice water? I'm thirsty, that's all.

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You're sure that's all?

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What else would I want with ice water?

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Forget it. Look, Walter, I'll sell Dennis on the idea of investing some money in a company of yours.

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Well, now that's more like it. When's he coming up here?

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Tomorrow. But you mustn't see him till I've had a chance to talk to him.

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Get out of town right away tonight.

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Well, where will I go?

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I have a fishing lodge up in the mountains. I'll give you the key to the place.

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You go up there and stay till I've sold Dennis on the idea. When the time's right, I'll come and get you.

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I'll cut you in on the deal if you sound good enough.

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Women do things sometimes, Walter, that they don't want to be paid for.

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Lonesome women, maybe?

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Maybe.

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Marsha, you're still the most beautiful woman that ever let a man up a garden path.

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Let's drink to that, Walter.

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In ice water?

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In ice water.

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The man who had come to blackmail Marsha Fillmore remained to whisper sweet nothings in her ear.

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It didn't make sense at first, but then I remembered.

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I had been told that she was a very beautiful woman. Beautiful to look at, that is.

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There are times when I am profoundly grateful that I have no eyes to deceive me.

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It must have been shortly after midnight that I heard it.

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I awoke with a start and sat up in bed.

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Although I have been blind for many years, I still reach out automatically for the light switch when I am awakened in the night.

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When the light went on, the sound stopped.

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I turned it off and waited.

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Quiet, schnooki, quiet.

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It started again.

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It seemed to be below my window somewhere down by the garage, hotel garage.

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Through the years, I have finally trained myself to identify almost any action by sound.

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But this one stumped me at first.

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It continued for perhaps ten seconds longer and then it stopped for good and the car door slammed.

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I made a careful mental note of the car's motor as it started up.

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It was a packer, then. One of the spark plugs was missing fire.

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But it got underway fast and was soon out of even my earshot.

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Of one thing, I was certain. It turned off the main road onto gravel.

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There was only one such turnoff within earshot of the hotel, the private road to the Fillmore's Fishing Lodge.

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Evidently, Mr. Walter Crane was going to have a visitor up there sooner than he had expected.

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As I dropped off to sleep, the memory of that sound came back to me.

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There was something strange and altogether sinister about it.

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It was still ringing in my head when I dropped off to sleep.

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I was awakened early by an insistent rapping on the door of my room.

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Quiet, Stucky! Just a moment!

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I fumbled about, found my robe, and put it on.

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Captain McClane?

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I'm Duncan McClane.

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May I come in for a moment?

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Of course.

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I do hope you'll forgive me for bursting in here like this, but I saw you in the dining room yesterday morning and when I heard who you were, I hope you won't be angry with me.

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Why, not at all.

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Past my getting up time anyway, it must have been the mountain air that made me oversleep. Won't you sit down?

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Thank you.

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Cigarette?

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Yes, thanks.

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Here, I've got it.

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You know, you're really amazing. One would never suspect that you're...

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Blind?

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Well, Mrs. Fillmore, we blind people can compensate to a certain extent by developing other senses more acutely.

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You know my name.

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I took the liberty of asking the head waiter last night who the lady was with the intoxicating perfume.

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Just as I asked who the man was with the police dog.

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Oh no, Snooki here is not a police dog. She's just an amiable old German shepherd.

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I have a police dog, though. Dressed.

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I only take him along when I'm on especially dangerous assignments.

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Oh, I gather you're not on one now.

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Shall we get to the point, Mrs. Fillmore?

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Oh, well... well, there's a man staying here in this hotel, or rather he was.

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His name is Walter Crane. He's a blackmailer.

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Yes?

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Well, there's no need going into it, but he's got hold of something about my past.

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If it were published, it would ruin my husband's career.

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There's only one thing to do with a blackmailer, Mrs. Fillmore. Turn him over to the police.

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Oh, no, you don't understand. The police here is Sheriff Blackmer. He and my husband are political enemies.

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I'm afraid it would be too good an opportunity for him to pass up.

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Yes, I see your point.

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My... my first instinct was to get Walter Crane away from here.

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I told him to go up to our fishing lodge. I even gave him the key.

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I even pretended to renew an old interest which he once fancied I had in him personally.

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Always a mistake.

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Oh, but you don't know the worst of it. My husband came in from Knoxville early this morning,

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and without even waking, he went straight on up to the fishing lodge.

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He left a note asking me to join him up there.

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My husband is a violent and unreasonable man when he's angry.

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Captain McClain, if he finds Walter Crane staying there in the lodge, he's likely to think that...

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Just what are you afraid of, Mrs. Fillmore?

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I'm afraid my husband... Heaven forgive me for such a thought.

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I'm afraid my husband will murder him.

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There. Now I've said it.

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Yes. Now you've said it. Excuse me.

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Yes? Oh, Mrs. Fillmore, yes. She's right here. It's for you, Mrs. Fillmore.

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Oh, no. Don't go. I'm afraid it... Hello?

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Yes. Sheriff Blackmer?

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Oh, how dreadful.

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Oh, I know we didn't know him. I... I did speak to him for a moment yesterday evening, but I...

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Of course I'd be glad to help you in any way I can. I'll... I'll be in my cottage.

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What is it?

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I found him. His... his car plunged over the embankment.

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He was killed instantly. When?

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Some people in the cottage down below saw it happen. When?

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Just five minutes ago.

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On the way over to her cottage, I stopped at the hotel desk and sent a wire to the Seeing Eye Kennel in New Jersey.

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Send Dresd Air Express immediately.

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Dresd is my police dog. The dog I use only on very dangerous missions.

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Sheriff Blackmer was a big, professionally cheerful man, but I could tell from his voice that he was plenty worried.

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Glad to have you in on this, Captain McClain. We don't have many cases of this kind in these parts.

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I'll be glad to do what I can, Sheriff Blackmer.

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Oh, so this is one of them there Seeing Eye critters. Don't look no different from any other pooch to me.

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Nice poochie.

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I thought those Seeing Eye dogs were trained to be gentle.

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I trained this one myself for a special job.

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What kind of job?

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Don't bother to explain. I think I know the answer to that one.

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Well, now let's get down to business. Mrs. Fillmore.

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Yes, I suppose you want some information about that road up to the fishing lodge. It's quite steep and hard to negotiate if you don't know it.

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I know the road very well, Mrs. Fillmore.

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Well, then what are you...

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You said you didn't know this man, Walter Crane.

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Sheriff, I was very foolish when I spoke to you on the phone.

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As a matter of fact, he's a very old friend of mine, or was.

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I think you'll understand when I tell you my husband was very jealous.

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Jealous enough to have killed him?

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Killed him? I thought he died in an auto crash.

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He was murdered and thrown into the car just before it crashed. He died with an ice pick through his heart.

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Whatever she knew, she wasn't telling. That part of it came to her as a complete surprise.

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I know that now, and I knew it at the time.

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Whatever Marcia Fillmore had known about Walter Crane's death, she was innocent of stabbing him through the heart with that ice pick.

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As for the rest of it, her alibi was perfect. I was her alibi this time.

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She was in my room when it happened, 20 miles from the scene of the crime.

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But someone had driven up to that lodge before Dennis Fillmore, someone who had made elaborate preparations for that little drive.

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As I walked over to the hotel garage, the memory of that sound came back to me.

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The sound that I was convinced held the key to the mystery of Walter Crane's death, and Eddie Hassen's as well.

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I found a mechanic working on a car.

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Morning, sir. Hi, looking for your car?

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No, I don't drive.

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Oh. Mrs. Fillmore asked me to stop by. Is her car ready yet?

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Yeah, sure. It was only one of the spark plugs.

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This the car?

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Yeah.

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Station wagon. Packard, isn't it?

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Ah, you've got a good sense of touch, mister.

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Thank you. Hey, that's nice upholstered. Real leather, isn't it?

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Yep.

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Hey, that's peculiar.

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What is?

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The floor is wet and cold.

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Oh, maybe they went fishing this morning. They carry a chunk of ice sometimes when they go trout fishing.

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Ice? Of course. That's what it was. Ice.

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Captain McClane, you must believe me. I know that my husband didn't do this terrible thing.

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Then why did you come to me this morning and tell me you were afraid your husband would murder Crane?

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Oh, don't you understand why I needed help?

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I knew you only work on murder cases, so I tried to get you interested by making that story up.

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I think I can save your husband, Marcia, but only if you tell me the absolute truth.

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Oh, I will. I swear I will.

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Did you go up there to that cabin last night to see Walter Crane?

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No.

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Lie number one. You drove up there around 12.30.

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How did you know?

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I heard a car drive out about that time. It was a Packard with one dead spark plug.

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This morning your Packard was in the garage getting a spark plug replaced.

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You don't know I went up there.

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I heard you turned off on a gravel road about halfway up the mountain. Your road is the only one up that way.

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All right. All right, I did go up there. But I wasn't there when it happened.

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Marcia, have you ever seen this bottle before?

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Certainly. It had verlin in it, sleeping medicine. It's a prescription of my husband's.

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Have you any idea how it got in Crane's car?

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I gave it to him. He said he couldn't sleep.

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How did you give it to him?

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In the bottle, of course. Are you intimating that I drugged him?

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I'm only trying to find out what Crane did the last few hours of his life.

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If he took an overdose of sleeping medicine, it might account for the accident.

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He might have got up this morning still woozy from the effects of the drug, got in his car,

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released the emergency brake and blacked out for a split second as sometimes happens in the reaction to an overdose of sleeping medicine,

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lost control of the car and crashed over the embankment. It might have been as easy as that.

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But that wouldn't account for the ice pick through his heart.

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No. Not unless...

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You took a chunk of ice up there last night, didn't you?

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I don't know how you knew... Well, yes, he needed some, especially if he was going to do some trout fishing

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and Walter was very fond of ice water.

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Yes, I know. He ordered some last night at dinner.

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Is there anything you don't see with those sightless eyes of yours?

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I still don't see the murderer of Walter Crane.

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I thought for a moment there you suspected me.

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You were perfectly capable of it. You had the motor, you had the ice pick, but you weren't there when it happened.

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No. They can't prove that Dennis was, can they?

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Well, he's a pretty likely candidate, isn't he, Marcia?

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Oh, I'm so worried about him. They have a posse out for him. Where will he go, I wonder?

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I wonder.

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I knew where he'd go, and so did she, and they both knew that matters would have to come to a head that night.

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I didn't tell Sheriff Blackmer everything, but he agreed to drive me up there.

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About 20 minutes after the sheriff left, a man came into the lodge.

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From the storeroom where I was hidden, I could hear perfectly.

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He didn't turn on any lights, but went out to the kitchen and started some coffee.

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It could only have been Dennis Fillmore who paced up and down in that darkened room.

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Then I heard the door open and a woman's footsteps coming in.

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Dennis!

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Marcia!

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Dennis!

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You shouldn't have come here. What are you trying to do, lead them to me?

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I didn't tell the sheriff about you, Dennis. I swear I didn't.

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Tell him what?

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Dennis, I know you killed Crane.

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So you know I'm a murderer. Then what are you doing here?

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Oh, Dennis, I love you so much. I hated that man. I'm glad you killed him.

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What was Crane to you?

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I was going to tell you, darling. I used to know him. He's a blackmailer.

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It was perfectly innocent before I met you, but with your career and I...

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I didn't want you to get mixed up in it. That's why I told you to hide.

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Oh, I'm sorry, Marcia. Don't cry.

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Oh, I love you, Dennis.

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I made some coffee. Would you like some of it?

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Yes. You sit. You sit still, darling. I'll get it.

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Dennis, what are we going to do? Have you thought about it?

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I'm thinking as hard as I can, Marcia.

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You can't confess to this terrible thing, Dennis. I just won't let you.

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I don't think the insurance company would pay if I were electrocuted, would they?

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Oh, Dennis, don't say such things. Here, drink your coffee.

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It tastes rough, but it's hot. What's the matter with you?

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I just feel faint. I can't seem to get my breath. It's stuffy in here.

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It must be the wood smoke. I had trouble starting the fire.

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Come along outside. The air will block you out.

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All right.

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Yes, there. That is better.

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Would you like to take a drive somewhere?

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No, Dennis. Let's just sit in the car for a while. It's a very good idea.

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All right.

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They sat there in the car perhaps ten minutes before the car door slammed shut.

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And then I heard it. The sound that had been ringing in my ears since that first night.

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But now I was hearing the real thing for a second time.

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As calmly as the neighborhood ice man chipping out a fifty pound chunk for a housewife,

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the murderer was making preparations for a third experiment in a method of almost perfect crime.

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Hello, Marcia.

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You. How did you get here?

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I'm afraid I was eavesdropping.

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Then you heard what Dennis said.

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Yes, I did, Marcia.

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Oh, Captain McCrane, would you? Could you forget what Dennis said?

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Crane was a blackmailer. What does it matter who killed?

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Don't come any closer, Marcia. This dog isn't Schnucki. This is Dreist.

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The dog I told you about, remember?

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The one you take on dangerous missions? You're frightening me, Captain.

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You've terrified me for two whole days, Marcia.

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You're the most perfect killer I've ever met.

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You said yourself I couldn't have stabbed Walter Crane.

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Eddie Hasson wasn't stabbed.

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You're bluffing. You can't prove a thing.

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No. That's the beauty of your method. The ice melts away before the accident happens.

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Ice?

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That's your method, Marcia.

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First the victim is drugged with an overdose of sleeping medicine,

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then lured into the car and kept there till he falls asleep.

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The rest is simple. Put ice wedges under the front wheels and release the emergency brake.

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When the wedges melt away, the car rolls over the embankment with the sleeping man in it.

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You're miles away from the scene and the evidence has vanished.

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Literally melted away. Only this time it's not going to work.

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What are you going to do?

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Phone Sheriff Blackmer. I want him to get here before that ice melts.

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Captain Crane.

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Stay where you are, Marcia. It would be a shame to have Dreist mutilate your beauty.

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Your beauty is your most powerful weapon, you know.

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I only hope it won't free you and turn you loose to start killing again.

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You. What do you know about a woman's beauty? You blind woman.

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Marcia, stay back. I warn you. This dog is a killer.

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I'll kill you and that mongrel with me. I've hated you from the moment I first saw you.

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What kind of a man is it that looks at a woman with those cold, dead eyes?

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You'd be better off dead. I'm doing you a favor.

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She's dead, all right.

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I'm sorry. The dog, I guess I'll have to have him put away.

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That won't be necessary, Captain. She did that for you.

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Jabbed the ice pick square between his eyes.

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Poor fellow.

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I can't figure out how did she manage to stab Crane and still keep her alibi.

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She didn't stab Crane.

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Then who did?

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Nobody.

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Then how?

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It was a freak accident. The ice pick was on the seat of the car when it crashed.

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I knew that when you told me the angle at which it entered the body.

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That's why I kept insisting that Marcia hadn't stabbed him.

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That and the fact that the stabbing was so obviously news to her.

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She really thought her husband had done it.

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After she left Crane asleep in the car.

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So much so that she even accused him of doing it.

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By the way, is he all right?

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Oh sure, just a little dopy from the sleeping pills.

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I guess he's really broken up about her.

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He really loved her, the sap.

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I can't blame her though. She really was a beautiful woman.

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When she looked at you with those big blue eyes of hers,

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you could believe anything she wanted you to believe.

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So they told me.

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Yes, Sheriff. Sometimes I'm very glad I have no eyes to deceive me.

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