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Awaiting a jury's verdict in a murder case, university biology
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professor Daryl Hall recounts a nightmare and an uncanny presence
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that begins to blur sleep and waking life. That is
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the situation confronting Boris Karloff in Lights Out, The Dream,
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Episode 83, heard on NBC on March 23, 1938. Written
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by Arch Oberler, the broadcast is framed in a courtroom
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as Hall looks back on the events that brought him there.
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It also marked the fourth anniversary of Lights Out and
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opened Karloff's run of five consecutive appearances on the series
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that spring. Settle in now as the courtroom gives way
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to Hall's recollection. And now we return to the original broadcast.
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Tonight is the fourth anniversary of Lights Out. After four
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years of fantasy and imagination, chills and thrills, Lights Out
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celebrates by bringing to the microphone the internationally known actor
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whose name has become synonymous with the unusual and fantastic.
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The National Broadcasting Company takes pleasure in presenting Boris Karloff
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in the first of a special series of.
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Lights Out broadcasts. That lights out everybody.
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Tonight, Lights Out presents another psychological drama. A play in
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which the principal part is taken not by the character himself,
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but his thoughts. The voice you are about to hear
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is that of the thoughts of one Daryl Hall, accused murderer,
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sitting in a courtroom awaiting the return of a jury,
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which is to decide whether he is to live or die.
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And as he waits, the thoughts in his mind seethe
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and swirl, He then swirled.
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Guilty. Not guilty. Guilty. Not guilty. Guilty.
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Father in heaven, why don't I stop thinking those words?
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Words those jurymen are saying.
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He's guilty. He's not guilty. He's guilty. Not guilty. Guilty.
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Not guilty.
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No, no, I've got to stop thinking of what's going
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on in that room.
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The jurymen. I've got to stop thinking of them. I've
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got to keep my head clear. I've got to figure
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things out. When did all this start? Yes, I remember.
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That night, Wayne and I were sitting in my room,
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talking about dreams. I remember he said.
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Oh, come on, Gerald. Don't expect me to believe that one.
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Well, I'm certainly telling you the truth.
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A fellow with your imagination wasting his time teaching.
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Biology to a bunch of co-ed nitwits.
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No, sir. You should be writing fiction. I assure you,
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my dear Wayne, I've told you the truth. You're really serious?
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Of course I am.
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You actually mean that in all your life you've never
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had a dream?
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Never. Not even when you were a child?
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To my knowledge, I've never had a dream in all
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my life.
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Well, how do you like that? I like it very well.
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I close my eyes, oblivion, and then I wake up.
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No nightmare hangovers for me, Peg.
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Now, wait a minute, Darrell. Let me get this straight.
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You mean you've never even had a dream after, you know,
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eating a Welsh rare bit at midnight or surrounding a
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dozen green apples or anything like that?
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Believe me, Wade.
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I've never had a dream of any shape, form, or
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description in all my life. A dream to me is
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just a word. Something that happens to other people, but
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not to me.
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But everyone must dream.
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Well, perhaps.
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But it just so happens that my subconscious doesn't work
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that way.
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I tell you again, I have never dressed. Well, what
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do you know about that? Just unbelievable, I tell you. Unbelievable. Yes,
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that's what he said. Unbelievable.
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It was unbelievable that I'd never dressed. Then after a while,
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he went away and left me there.
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It was early evening.
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But I remember that somehow, strangely, I was very tired.
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I sat down in the easy chair.
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Oh, I was so tired. I closed my eyes. I slept.
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And then... Then it happened. A strange murmuring in my head.
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Yes.
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That's how it started. A murmuring as if in warnings.
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And then in the darkness.
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Around me, strange faces lifting and falling.
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White faces.
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Faces without hope. Their eyes full of horror. Their white,
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bloodless lips bleeding wordlessly in a way that made.
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The heart of me cry out in pity.
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And suddenly, I knew I was asleep and dreaming. Yes,
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dreaming for the first time in my life. And these
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faces I was seeing were things out of a dream.
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And even as I knew that, the dream was gone.
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Black.
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And yet I knew that I was still asleep. And
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I had a terrible feeling of foreboding, of a horror
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to come in that dream.
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What?
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How?
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I didn't know. But I wanted to stop sleeping. I
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wanted to open my eyes quickly before....
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And then I saw her. slowly toward me out of
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the darkness that was my dream.
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At first, a.
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White wreath-like thing. Then I saw it was a woman. Yes,
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the body of a woman, but the face.
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Father in heaven, that face. Gross. Gross.
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Thick, bestial brows. Wrinkles of venery. The lecherous writhing of thin,
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crimson lips that lifted from teeth.
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Bite and pointed. And flecked with blood. Yes. A glorious body.
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And a face from hell. Closer. Closer to me.
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And then she spoke one word.
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You.
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That's what she said.
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Kill.
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And as she said it, she moved closer. Her hands
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went out her eyes. In my dream, I screamed. I awoke.
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I remember. Just at that second, the clock on.
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The mantel began striking.
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Five. Six. Seven. Thankfully, I counted each time.
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Since the hearing of it meant that I was awake,
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awake out of the horror of that dream.
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When the clock had stopped chiming, I sapped them.
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My one thought was, if this be dreaming, let me
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never dream again.
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I heard a sound. What was that? I sat still,
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afraid to move. And then I laughed. It was my
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own heart. My own heart still pounding with.
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Fright at what I'd seen in my first dream. Oh,
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why do I sit here thinking of what has been?
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The jury in there.
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They've got to hang me. Free him. They've got to
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hang me.
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No, no, I.
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Mustn't think of that.
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Better to keep my thoughts on how it all started.
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Better to figure things out. Where was I? Ah, yes.
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Sitting there, listening to the beating of my heart. Thinking
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of the horror of that dream.
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Then, suddenly.
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That strange, wordless murmur I had heard in my dream
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was whispering in my head again.
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Quickly as it began, it was gone. How could this be?
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I was awake. Awake. This was no dream. Then why
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had I heard that wordless entreaty?
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That same sound that had come from those miserable white
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faces that had floated before me while I slept.
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Why? Why? I heard it. sound behind me.
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Who? Why, yes, my friend Wayne. Must be he. Come
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back into the room, standing behind.
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My chair, thinking I was asleep.
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I turned round and said, Wayne, is that you?
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Ah! Ah! Yes. I screamed.
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I screamed so loudly there was blood in my throat.
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For it was she again. That woman. That woman out
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of my dream. But this wasn't a dream.
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She was standing there, I tell you. She was standing
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there close to me, looking at me. And those lips
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out of hell said that one word.
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You.
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I jumped to my feet. No one in the room.
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No one, I tell you. I remember standing there, my
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head reeling. Who was she? Where did she come from?
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But there was no one in the room. Had there
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been anyone there? I didn't sleep that night. But by morning... Yes,
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by morning I had it all figured out. Two dreams.
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That's what it had been. And the second had been
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more vivid than the first.
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Why, of course.
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I'd never dreamed before. So, of course, my first dreams
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would seem reality. How easy it was to quietly unrest
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in my mind. Easy to make oneself believe what one
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wants to believe. And yet, Some measure of uncertainty remained
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with me. And Mary saw it in my face when
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I had dinner with her that night.
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Daryl, do you mind if I ask you something?
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What a question. Of course not.
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Is there something wrong?
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You mean with the dinner? Well, you know, this is
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my favorite restaurant.
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With you, dear.
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Has something gone wrong at the university? Why do you
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ask that?
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The worry in your eyes.
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Oh. What is it, dear? Oh, it's nothing. It's nothing important.
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You've changed your mind about loving me?
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Mary. Then tell me what it is, please.
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All right. It's really nothing to concern yourself over. Just a...
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a dream. Dream? Dear, you dreamt. Yes.
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Last night.
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How marvelous. Now you're normal even when you sleep. That's right,
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isn't it? I'm back to normal, see if I'm wrong.
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And here I thought from the expression on your face
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that it was something really important. Funny, isn't it?
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And I suppose in your first dream you dreamt of.
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A glorious, seductive woman. No, Mary. Ah, did you have
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a nightmare?
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If you don't mind, let's not talk about it anymore.
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Shall we have our dessert now? Now, I suggest the
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hot green apple pie with cheese.
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Darryl, was it as bad as all that?
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Horrible.
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Oh, that's cruel. Your very first dream, an unhappy one. Oh, well,
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I'm sure that if you dream again, you've more interesting
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times ahead.
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Darryl, look at the time.
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A minute to seven, and we promised the Armstrongs we'd
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pick them up at 7.15.
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Darryl. What is it? Your face. Do you hear it?
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Hear what? You do hear it, don't you? The voices.
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The voices?
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Daryl, what are you talking about? Why, the people in
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this restaurant are most well behaved.
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Gone. Just the way it was before.
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Daryl, please, if this is a joke, please tell it
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to me.
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Daryl, what is it?
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What are you staring at?
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What's behind my chair?
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What's there, Daryl?
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Tell me what it is.
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Gerald, the table.
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Why did you throw over the table?
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Gerald, what is it?
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What is it? Why did you scream like that?
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What's the matter with you, Gerald?
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Yes, she wanted to know why I had done it. Screamed,
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thrown over the table. They all wanted to know. But
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how could I tell them? Tell them of her standing
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behind Mary's chair.
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That thing of degradation. And those lips saying, kill. I
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went home. Mary thought I was overworked. Oh, no, darling,
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you've been working so hard.
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Go home and rest, dear.
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That's all you need, rest. Rest, rest.
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What good was rest? I had to reason things out.
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All my life I'd lived with.
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Reason, and now this.
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This horror. I had to know all about it. Though
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I was certain it was no dream. What I had
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seen there in the restaurant had been no thing of sleep.
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Hallucination. Yes. Yes. That was it. I had been working hard.
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Too much work was the answer, and rest would cure that. Yes, indeed.
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And so I rested through the next day. It was
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quite dark when I awoke. The phone rang. It was
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Mary calling to find out how I felt.
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Are you sure you're all right, Daryl? Why, yes, Mary, yes.
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I'm fine, thank you. You sound all right.
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Your advice was good, dear. Apparently rest was just what
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I needed.
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Then go along back to bed. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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All right, dearest. Thanks for calling. Goodbye, Daryl. Sleep well tonight.
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I hung up the receiver.
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And then the clock on the mantel behind me began striking.
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Always at seven. Always at seven.
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Always at seven.
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Yes, that was true.
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Each time it had been seven when it had happened.
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And then, with the last chime of the clock, I
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realized it was seven again.
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Seven!
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Would I see her again? I stood there, back against
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the wall, waiting.
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So quiet, I could hear the clock ticking away the seconds.
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Would it happen again, this hallucination of mine? I waited.
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I waited. I heard no pitiful murmur of voices. Just quiet.
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So dark in the room.
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I could see the shadowy emptiness of a chair near
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the other wall.
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And then the chair was no longer empty. There was
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someone in it.
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I said, who's there?
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Answer me, who's there? No answer.
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A strange darkness in the room.
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Deeper and deeper, I could see nothing.
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And then, two swirling pools of flame led right.
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Closer and closer.
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I stood there. I couldn't move.
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A rumbling began in my brain. Fear, I tell you.
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Fear tearing up my brain louder and louder while those
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red circles of light came closer and closer.
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Father in heaven, what was it?
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Run!
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And then I knew. It was her eyes.
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Her eyes burning close into mine, into the brain of me,
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pounding one thought into me.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill.
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Why did she say that?
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Why kill whom? Why should I kill? Why should I kill?
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If I had known then.
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The jury They're coming back The verdict, what? No, not
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yet Steer out.
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Oh, they've got to find me guilty I've got to
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hang I've got to.
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If I live Oh, but I mustn't think of that
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I must think of what happened Where was I?
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Ah, yes That, that woman Her eyes pounding that word
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into me And then Gone again But this was no dream.
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Then what?
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A voice within me whispered, Crazy, crazy, crazy.
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No, I was dreaming. That horror was real, real as
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the breath in me.
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And with that realization, the coldnesses of a wind blew
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around me and crushed at my heart. For if she
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was reality, somehow I knew.
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That I was lost. How it began, night after night,
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the stroke of seven.
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First that wailing dirge of those lost souls. And then
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her rising lips.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.
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Kill, kill, kill.
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Father in heaven, the words began pounding in my head
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so that even when she wasn't there, I heard.
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Them. I hid in my room. I didn't go out.
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People would see this madness that had come over me.
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Like nowhere. And soon I knew that they were talking
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about it. Come over, Daryl. Hides in his rooms.
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Won't even talk to me.
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Something's wrong, Daryl. Mary.
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Please, Daryl, you've got to let me see you.
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This talking over the phone. Oh, darling, what's wrong? What's wrong?
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Night after night, the horror of... And the greater horror of.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.
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Mary pleaded with me. Dear, if you love me, please
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let me see you, talk to you. Come over to
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my house tonight. Oh, please, Daryl, perhaps I can help you. Please, darling, please.
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I didn't want to go, but I went that night.
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Perhaps she could help. Yes. Help me understand the madness.
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Of those wailing voices and drifting white faces. Understand the
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horror of that woman and that maddening words. Mary, so understanding,
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so gentle. She could help me clear my head.
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Of the madness. Oh, dear, you're here at last. Mary,
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help me. You will help me.
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Oh, dear, your face, so white. Oh, I... Don't talk yet.
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Sit here and rest.
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I'm saying, Mary, believe me, I'm saying.
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Of course, dearest, of course you are.
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It's that madness outside of me, those white, drifting faces
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moaning at me.
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Rest, darling.
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And that woman out of hell. Woman? Her eyes and
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lips telling me to.
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Time? What?
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The time.
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What time is it? It's seven. Daryl, what is it?
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I've lost track. I've got to get out of here.
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Daryl, don't.
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Wait. Don't go. Too late. Daryl, what is it? Too late.
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Late.
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You hear them, don't you, Mary? I'll go call a doctor.
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Listen to them. Their voices are so loud tonight. Listen, Mary. Daryl, don't.
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There's no one here. You hear them. You must hear them.
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What are they saying? Louder and louder, trying to tell
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me something.
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What are you saying, you out there? What are you
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telling me?
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Daryl, stop! They're gone. Faces, voices, gone. Daryl. Oh, she'll
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be here. Oh, please, you're right.
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Make me.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill.
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You hear her, Mary? You hear her?
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No, no, dear, please.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. The other has to laugh
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at this.
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Make her stop, Mary.
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Make her stop.
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Stop it.
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She's evil. You're what you want to be.
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Stop it.
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Stop it.
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I'm not dead anymore. Kill, kill, kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Go away.
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Go away and I'll kill. I'll kill. I'll kill. Bill, don't.
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My neck.
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Stop him, Bill.
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Bill, no. Kill. Kill.
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Kill. Kill.
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Bill.
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Bill. Bill. Yes. I had killed her.
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My sweet, gentle little Merrick killed her with my own hand.
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I opened my hand. She fell to the floor.
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I went out into the street.
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People all around me hurrying I was in no hurry.
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What that woman had wanted, I had done.
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I had... killed. I walked all night. It didn't matter where.
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And in the morning, I found myself on the campus
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of the school... before the.
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Very building in which a class was waiting for my lecture.
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I went in. I walked up on the platform... and
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looked down into their faces.
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I said to them, Ladies and gentlemen, my lecture for
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today will be on the subject of the selective factor.
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In the evolutionary... I stopped. A murmur in the air.
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Those voices again. But it was broad daylight. I'd never
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heard those voices in daylight before. What do they want
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of me? What are they saying?
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There was a strangeness in their pitiful voices. Yes, like... Yes,
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like a dirge. A dirge of tears and sorrow for someone.
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For me, yes. For me. And then... Her voice. Laughing. Laughing.
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Triumphant.
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Then I understood.
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For the first time, I understood everything.
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Everything.
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She had triumphed over me. That was why those lost
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souls were waving a dart over me.
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I was hers.
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Hers forever. I darted right out of Erica Batman. Ran, ran,
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and as I ran, those voices of.
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The damned were daunting to me.
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As we are doing.
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No peace through all eternity.
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No peace for those who murder.
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Through all eternity.
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I covered with my ears, with my hands, I ran.
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No use, I hurt them, I hurt them.
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Only one hope for you, man, one hope. Expiate your crime.
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On the gallows. Pay for what you have done.
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On the gallows and you shall have one. One hope, man,
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one hope.
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So that was it. My one hope.
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If I paid society for my crime, she would fail.
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I would be free of her, that thing, that essence
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of evil, that siren who called men to murder so
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that their souls would be slaves to her.
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For all eternity. Yes, yes, I'd pay for my crime.
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I ran on and on back to Mary's house.
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Yes, I'd pay it gladly with my life to have
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the peace of the rest of oblivion.
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I went back into the house Yes, Mary was lying there, cold.
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I lifted her.
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Those same hands that had crushed the life out of
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her lifted her and carried her out into the sun.
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My eyes were so filled with tears that I could
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hardly see where I walked.
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People began milling about me. He's got a woman in
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his arms. Well, where did he carry her?
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She must have fainted.
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No, look, he's dead. What?
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Who killed her?
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Hey, mister.
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Hey, mister, who killed her?
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Who killed her?
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I killed her. With my own hands, I killed her.
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And please, I want to die for her.
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Hey, will you? And then the trial. My friends, they
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wanted to save me.
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Clever eternities, sanity commissions and twists of the law. But
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I wanted to die. I tell you, I had to die.
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If they set me free, if I lived and died
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as most men die, the death they call a natural one,
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then she would have me.
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No, no.
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I won't hang by the neck until dead. I won't
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let noose around my neck. The trap beneath my feet,
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the jailer pulls the switch. My feet dancing in air.
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The noose strangling me as my hands strangle Mary.
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Pay for my crime and I'll be free.
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Free of that horror with the writhing lips, blood-stained teeth.
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Order the court.
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Order the court. The jury. They're coming in. Guilty. They've
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got to find me. Gentlemen of the jury, have you
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reached the verdict?
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We have, Your Honor.
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The court of the court will read the verdict, please.
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See the jury.
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Find the defendant. Guilty of murder in the first degree.
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Guilty.
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Guilty. Guilty.
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Guilty. You hear that, you thing out of hell? Guilty.
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Guilty for the next thing I said.
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I'll be free of you.
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I'll have peace. You failed me. I'll see to my crime.
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You'll never get done. What's he mean? Stand back, everybody.
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Doctor, doctor, I can't wait, doctor.
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Stand back, please. It's no use. This man is dead.
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Heart attack. Hold it. Would you take a look at
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his face?
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Yeah.
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As if he was looking at the devil himself.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you have just heard the first play
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in a special series commemorating the fourth anniversary of Lights
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Out and starring Boris Karloff.
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Next week, Mr.
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Karloff will appear in another new air drama by Arch Obler,
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a play suggested by the... Sibelius musical.
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Composition, Voltrist.
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It is a story of death and a revenge beyond death.
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Listen to Lights Out with Boris Karloff. Lights Out, written
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especially for radio by Arch Obler, comes to you each
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Wednesday evening from our Chicago studios. This is the National
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Broadcasting Company.
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Our presentation of Lights Out, The Dream, now draws to
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a close.
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Follow Lights Out for more classic broadcasts.
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Awaiting a jury's verdict in a murder case, university biology
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professor Daryl Hall recounts a nightmare and an uncanny presence
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that begins to blur sleep and waking life. That is
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the situation confronting Boris Karloff in Lights Out, The Dream,
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Episode 83, heard on NBC on March 23, 1938. Written
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by Arch Oberler, the broadcast is framed in a courtroom
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as Hall looks back on the events that brought him there.
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It also marked the fourth anniversary of Lights Out and
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opened Karloff's run of five consecutive appearances on the series
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that spring. Settle in now as the courtroom gives way
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to Hall's recollection. And now we return to the original broadcast.
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Tonight is the fourth anniversary of Lights Out. After four
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years of fantasy and imagination, chills and thrills, Lights Out
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celebrates by bringing to the microphone the internationally known actor
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whose name has become synonymous with the unusual and fantastic.
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The National Broadcasting Company takes pleasure in presenting Boris Karloff
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in the first of a special series of.
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Lights Out broadcasts. That lights out everybody.
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Tonight, Lights Out presents another psychological drama. A play in
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which the principal part is taken not by the character himself,
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but his thoughts. The voice you are about to hear
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is that of the thoughts of one Daryl Hall, accused murderer,
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sitting in a courtroom awaiting the return of a jury,
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which is to decide whether he is to live or die.
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And as he waits, the thoughts in his mind seethe
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and swirl, He then swirled.
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Guilty. Not guilty. Guilty. Not guilty. Guilty.
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Father in heaven, why don't I stop thinking those words?
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Words those jurymen are saying.
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He's guilty. He's not guilty. He's guilty. Not guilty. Guilty.
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Not guilty.
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No, no, I've got to stop thinking of what's going
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on in that room.
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The jurymen. I've got to stop thinking of them. I've
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got to keep my head clear. I've got to figure
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things out. When did all this start? Yes, I remember.
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That night, Wayne and I were sitting in my room,
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talking about dreams. I remember he said.
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Oh, come on, Gerald. Don't expect me to believe that one.
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Well, I'm certainly telling you the truth.
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A fellow with your imagination wasting his time teaching.
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Biology to a bunch of co-ed nitwits.
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No, sir. You should be writing fiction. I assure you,
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my dear Wayne, I've told you the truth. You're really serious?
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Of course I am.
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You actually mean that in all your life you've never
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had a dream?
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Never. Not even when you were a child?
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To my knowledge, I've never had a dream in all
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my life.
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Well, how do you like that? I like it very well.
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I close my eyes, oblivion, and then I wake up.
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No nightmare hangovers for me, Peg.
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Now, wait a minute, Darrell. Let me get this straight.
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You mean you've never even had a dream after, you know,
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eating a Welsh rare bit at midnight or surrounding a
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dozen green apples or anything like that?
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Believe me, Wade.
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I've never had a dream of any shape, form, or
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description in all my life. A dream to me is
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just a word. Something that happens to other people, but
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not to me.
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But everyone must dream.
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Well, perhaps.
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But it just so happens that my subconscious doesn't work
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that way.
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I tell you again, I have never dressed. Well, what
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do you know about that? Just unbelievable, I tell you. Unbelievable. Yes,
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that's what he said. Unbelievable.
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It was unbelievable that I'd never dressed. Then after a while,
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he went away and left me there.
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It was early evening.
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But I remember that somehow, strangely, I was very tired.
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I sat down in the easy chair.
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Oh, I was so tired. I closed my eyes. I slept.
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And then... Then it happened. A strange murmuring in my head.
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Yes.
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That's how it started. A murmuring as if in warnings.
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And then in the darkness.
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Around me, strange faces lifting and falling.
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White faces.
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Faces without hope. Their eyes full of horror. Their white,
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bloodless lips bleeding wordlessly in a way that made.
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The heart of me cry out in pity.
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And suddenly, I knew I was asleep and dreaming. Yes,
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dreaming for the first time in my life. And these
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faces I was seeing were things out of a dream.
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And even as I knew that, the dream was gone.
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Black.
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And yet I knew that I was still asleep. And
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I had a terrible feeling of foreboding, of a horror
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to come in that dream.
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What?
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How?
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I didn't know. But I wanted to stop sleeping. I
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wanted to open my eyes quickly before....
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And then I saw her. slowly toward me out of
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the darkness that was my dream.
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At first, a.
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White wreath-like thing. Then I saw it was a woman. Yes,
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the body of a woman, but the face.
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Father in heaven, that face. Gross. Gross.
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Thick, bestial brows. Wrinkles of venery. The lecherous writhing of thin,
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crimson lips that lifted from teeth.
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Bite and pointed. And flecked with blood. Yes. A glorious body.
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And a face from hell. Closer. Closer to me.
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And then she spoke one word.
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You.
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That's what she said.
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Kill.
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And as she said it, she moved closer. Her hands
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went out her eyes. In my dream, I screamed. I awoke.
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I remember. Just at that second, the clock on.
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The mantel began striking.
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Five. Six. Seven. Thankfully, I counted each time.
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Since the hearing of it meant that I was awake,
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awake out of the horror of that dream.
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When the clock had stopped chiming, I sapped them.
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My one thought was, if this be dreaming, let me
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never dream again.
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I heard a sound. What was that? I sat still,
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afraid to move. And then I laughed. It was my
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own heart. My own heart still pounding with.
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Fright at what I'd seen in my first dream. Oh,
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why do I sit here thinking of what has been?
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The jury in there.
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They've got to hang me. Free him. They've got to
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hang me.
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No, no, I.
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Mustn't think of that.
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Better to keep my thoughts on how it all started.
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Better to figure things out. Where was I? Ah, yes.
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Sitting there, listening to the beating of my heart. Thinking
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of the horror of that dream.
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Then, suddenly.
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That strange, wordless murmur I had heard in my dream
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was whispering in my head again.
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Quickly as it began, it was gone. How could this be?
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I was awake. Awake. This was no dream. Then why
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had I heard that wordless entreaty?
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That same sound that had come from those miserable white
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faces that had floated before me while I slept.
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Why? Why? I heard it. sound behind me.
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Who? Why, yes, my friend Wayne. Must be he. Come
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back into the room, standing behind.
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My chair, thinking I was asleep.
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I turned round and said, Wayne, is that you?
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Ah! Ah! Yes. I screamed.
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I screamed so loudly there was blood in my throat.
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For it was she again. That woman. That woman out
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of my dream. But this wasn't a dream.
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She was standing there, I tell you. She was standing
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there close to me, looking at me. And those lips
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out of hell said that one word.
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You.
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I jumped to my feet. No one in the room.
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No one, I tell you. I remember standing there, my
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head reeling. Who was she? Where did she come from?
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But there was no one in the room. Had there
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been anyone there? I didn't sleep that night. But by morning... Yes,
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by morning I had it all figured out. Two dreams.
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That's what it had been. And the second had been
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more vivid than the first.
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Why, of course.
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I'd never dreamed before. So, of course, my first dreams
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would seem reality. How easy it was to quietly unrest
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in my mind. Easy to make oneself believe what one
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wants to believe. And yet, Some measure of uncertainty remained
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with me. And Mary saw it in my face when
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I had dinner with her that night.
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Daryl, do you mind if I ask you something?
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What a question. Of course not.
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Is there something wrong?
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You mean with the dinner? Well, you know, this is
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my favorite restaurant.
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With you, dear.
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Has something gone wrong at the university? Why do you
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ask that?
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The worry in your eyes.
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Oh. What is it, dear? Oh, it's nothing. It's nothing important.
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You've changed your mind about loving me?
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Mary. Then tell me what it is, please.
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All right. It's really nothing to concern yourself over. Just a...
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a dream. Dream? Dear, you dreamt. Yes.
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Last night.
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How marvelous. Now you're normal even when you sleep. That's right,
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isn't it? I'm back to normal, see if I'm wrong.
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And here I thought from the expression on your face
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that it was something really important. Funny, isn't it?
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And I suppose in your first dream you dreamt of.
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A glorious, seductive woman. No, Mary. Ah, did you have
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a nightmare?
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If you don't mind, let's not talk about it anymore.
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Shall we have our dessert now? Now, I suggest the
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hot green apple pie with cheese.
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Darryl, was it as bad as all that?
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Horrible.
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Oh, that's cruel. Your very first dream, an unhappy one. Oh, well,
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I'm sure that if you dream again, you've more interesting
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times ahead.
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Darryl, look at the time.
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A minute to seven, and we promised the Armstrongs we'd
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pick them up at 7.15.
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Darryl. What is it? Your face. Do you hear it?
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Hear what? You do hear it, don't you? The voices.
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The voices?
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Daryl, what are you talking about? Why, the people in
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this restaurant are most well behaved.
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Gone. Just the way it was before.
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Daryl, please, if this is a joke, please tell it
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to me.
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Daryl, what is it?
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What are you staring at?
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What's behind my chair?
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What's there, Daryl?
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Tell me what it is.
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Gerald, the table.
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Why did you throw over the table?
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Gerald, what is it?
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What is it? Why did you scream like that?
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What's the matter with you, Gerald?
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Yes, she wanted to know why I had done it. Screamed,
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thrown over the table. They all wanted to know. But
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how could I tell them? Tell them of her standing
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behind Mary's chair.
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That thing of degradation. And those lips saying, kill. I
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went home. Mary thought I was overworked. Oh, no, darling,
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you've been working so hard.
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Go home and rest, dear.
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That's all you need, rest. Rest, rest.
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What good was rest? I had to reason things out.
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All my life I'd lived with.
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Reason, and now this.
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This horror. I had to know all about it. Though
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I was certain it was no dream. What I had
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seen there in the restaurant had been no thing of sleep.
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Hallucination. Yes. Yes. That was it. I had been working hard.
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Too much work was the answer, and rest would cure that. Yes, indeed.
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And so I rested through the next day. It was
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quite dark when I awoke. The phone rang. It was
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Mary calling to find out how I felt.
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Are you sure you're all right, Daryl? Why, yes, Mary, yes.
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I'm fine, thank you. You sound all right.
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Your advice was good, dear. Apparently rest was just what
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I needed.
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Then go along back to bed. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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All right, dearest. Thanks for calling. Goodbye, Daryl. Sleep well tonight.
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I hung up the receiver.
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And then the clock on the mantel behind me began striking.
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Always at seven. Always at seven.
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Always at seven.
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Yes, that was true.
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Each time it had been seven when it had happened.
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And then, with the last chime of the clock, I
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realized it was seven again.
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Seven!
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Would I see her again? I stood there, back against
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the wall, waiting.
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So quiet, I could hear the clock ticking away the seconds.
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Would it happen again, this hallucination of mine? I waited.
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I waited. I heard no pitiful murmur of voices. Just quiet.
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So dark in the room.
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I could see the shadowy emptiness of a chair near
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the other wall.
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And then the chair was no longer empty. There was
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someone in it.
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I said, who's there?
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Answer me, who's there? No answer.
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A strange darkness in the room.
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Deeper and deeper, I could see nothing.
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And then, two swirling pools of flame led right.
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Closer and closer.
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I stood there. I couldn't move.
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A rumbling began in my brain. Fear, I tell you.
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Fear tearing up my brain louder and louder while those
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red circles of light came closer and closer.
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Father in heaven, what was it?
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Run!
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And then I knew. It was her eyes.
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Her eyes burning close into mine, into the brain of me,
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pounding one thought into me.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill.
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Why did she say that?
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Why kill whom? Why should I kill? Why should I kill?
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If I had known then.
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The jury They're coming back The verdict, what? No, not
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yet Steer out.
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Oh, they've got to find me guilty I've got to
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hang I've got to.
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If I live Oh, but I mustn't think of that
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I must think of what happened Where was I?
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Ah, yes That, that woman Her eyes pounding that word
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into me And then Gone again But this was no dream.
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Then what?
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A voice within me whispered, Crazy, crazy, crazy.
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No, I was dreaming. That horror was real, real as
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the breath in me.
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And with that realization, the coldnesses of a wind blew
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around me and crushed at my heart. For if she
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was reality, somehow I knew.
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That I was lost. How it began, night after night,
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the stroke of seven.
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First that wailing dirge of those lost souls. And then
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her rising lips.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.
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Kill, kill, kill.
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Father in heaven, the words began pounding in my head
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so that even when she wasn't there, I heard.
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Them. I hid in my room. I didn't go out.
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People would see this madness that had come over me.
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Like nowhere. And soon I knew that they were talking
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about it. Come over, Daryl. Hides in his rooms.
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Won't even talk to me.
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Something's wrong, Daryl. Mary.
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Please, Daryl, you've got to let me see you.
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This talking over the phone. Oh, darling, what's wrong? What's wrong?
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Night after night, the horror of... And the greater horror of.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.
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Mary pleaded with me. Dear, if you love me, please
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let me see you, talk to you. Come over to
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my house tonight. Oh, please, Daryl, perhaps I can help you. Please, darling, please.
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I didn't want to go, but I went that night.
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Perhaps she could help. Yes. Help me understand the madness.
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Of those wailing voices and drifting white faces. Understand the
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horror of that woman and that maddening words. Mary, so understanding,
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so gentle. She could help me clear my head.
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Of the madness. Oh, dear, you're here at last. Mary,
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help me. You will help me.
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Oh, dear, your face, so white. Oh, I... Don't talk yet.
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Sit here and rest.
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I'm saying, Mary, believe me, I'm saying.
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Of course, dearest, of course you are.
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It's that madness outside of me, those white, drifting faces
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moaning at me.
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Rest, darling.
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And that woman out of hell. Woman? Her eyes and
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lips telling me to.
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Time? What?
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The time.
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What time is it? It's seven. Daryl, what is it?
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I've lost track. I've got to get out of here.
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Daryl, don't.
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Wait. Don't go. Too late. Daryl, what is it? Too late.
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Late.
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You hear them, don't you, Mary? I'll go call a doctor.
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Listen to them. Their voices are so loud tonight. Listen, Mary. Daryl, don't.
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There's no one here. You hear them. You must hear them.
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What are they saying? Louder and louder, trying to tell
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me something.
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What are you saying, you out there? What are you
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telling me?
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Daryl, stop! They're gone. Faces, voices, gone. Daryl. Oh, she'll
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be here. Oh, please, you're right.
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Make me.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill.
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You hear her, Mary? You hear her?
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No, no, dear, please.
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Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. The other has to laugh
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at this.
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Make her stop, Mary.
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Make her stop.
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Stop it.
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She's evil. You're what you want to be.
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Stop it.
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Stop it.
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I'm not dead anymore. Kill, kill, kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Go away.
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Go away and I'll kill. I'll kill. I'll kill. Bill, don't.
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My neck.
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Stop him, Bill.
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Bill, no. Kill. Kill.
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Kill. Kill.
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Bill.
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Bill. Bill. Yes. I had killed her.
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My sweet, gentle little Merrick killed her with my own hand.
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I opened my hand. She fell to the floor.
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I went out into the street.
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People all around me hurrying I was in no hurry.
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What that woman had wanted, I had done.
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I had... killed. I walked all night. It didn't matter where.
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And in the morning, I found myself on the campus
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of the school... before the.
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Very building in which a class was waiting for my lecture.
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I went in. I walked up on the platform... and
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looked down into their faces.
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I said to them, Ladies and gentlemen, my lecture for
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today will be on the subject of the selective factor.
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In the evolutionary... I stopped. A murmur in the air.
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Those voices again. But it was broad daylight. I'd never
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heard those voices in daylight before. What do they want
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of me? What are they saying?
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There was a strangeness in their pitiful voices. Yes, like... Yes,
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like a dirge. A dirge of tears and sorrow for someone.
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For me, yes. For me. And then... Her voice. Laughing. Laughing.
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Triumphant.
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Then I understood.
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For the first time, I understood everything.
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Everything.
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She had triumphed over me. That was why those lost
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souls were waving a dart over me.
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I was hers.
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Hers forever. I darted right out of Erica Batman. Ran, ran,
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and as I ran, those voices of.
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The damned were daunting to me.
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As we are doing.
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No peace through all eternity.
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No peace for those who murder.
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Through all eternity.
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I covered with my ears, with my hands, I ran.
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No use, I hurt them, I hurt them.
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Only one hope for you, man, one hope. Expiate your crime.
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On the gallows. Pay for what you have done.
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On the gallows and you shall have one. One hope, man,
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one hope.
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So that was it. My one hope.
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If I paid society for my crime, she would fail.
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I would be free of her, that thing, that essence
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of evil, that siren who called men to murder so
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that their souls would be slaves to her.
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For all eternity. Yes, yes, I'd pay for my crime.
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I ran on and on back to Mary's house.
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Yes, I'd pay it gladly with my life to have
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the peace of the rest of oblivion.
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I went back into the house Yes, Mary was lying there, cold.
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I lifted her.
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Those same hands that had crushed the life out of
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her lifted her and carried her out into the sun.
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My eyes were so filled with tears that I could
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hardly see where I walked.
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People began milling about me. He's got a woman in
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his arms. Well, where did he carry her?
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She must have fainted.
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No, look, he's dead. What?
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Who killed her?
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Hey, mister.
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Hey, mister, who killed her?
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Who killed her?
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I killed her. With my own hands, I killed her.
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And please, I want to die for her.
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Hey, will you? And then the trial. My friends, they
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wanted to save me.
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Clever eternities, sanity commissions and twists of the law. But
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I wanted to die. I tell you, I had to die.
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If they set me free, if I lived and died
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as most men die, the death they call a natural one,
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then she would have me.
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No, no.
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I won't hang by the neck until dead. I won't
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let noose around my neck. The trap beneath my feet,
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the jailer pulls the switch. My feet dancing in air.
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The noose strangling me as my hands strangle Mary.
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Pay for my crime and I'll be free.
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Free of that horror with the writhing lips, blood-stained teeth.
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Order the court.
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Order the court. The jury. They're coming in. Guilty. They've
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got to find me. Gentlemen of the jury, have you
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reached the verdict?
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We have, Your Honor.
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The court of the court will read the verdict, please.
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See the jury.
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Find the defendant. Guilty of murder in the first degree.
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Guilty.
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Guilty. Guilty.
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Guilty. You hear that, you thing out of hell? Guilty.
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Guilty for the next thing I said.
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I'll be free of you.
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I'll have peace. You failed me. I'll see to my crime.
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You'll never get done. What's he mean? Stand back, everybody.
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Doctor, doctor, I can't wait, doctor.
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Stand back, please. It's no use. This man is dead.
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Heart attack. Hold it. Would you take a look at
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his face?
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Yeah.
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As if he was looking at the devil himself.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you have just heard the first play
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in a special series commemorating the fourth anniversary of Lights
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Out and starring Boris Karloff.
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Next week, Mr.
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Karloff will appear in another new air drama by Arch Obler,
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a play suggested by the... Sibelius musical.
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Composition, Voltrist.
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It is a story of death and a revenge beyond death.
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Listen to Lights Out with Boris Karloff. Lights Out, written
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especially for radio by Arch Obler, comes to you each
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Wednesday evening from our Chicago studios. This is the National
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Broadcasting Company.
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Our presentation of Lights Out, The Dream, now draws to
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a close.
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