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Tom for today's episode of Pursuit Pursuit in cleanuid mind please, honey, Yes,
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it's a cnnuit scene. I don't know. Put in the call,
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will you, mister God No, it's feminine Thomas, the superintendent is at
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the shop. It's a call, mister. So most of them got out
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for the cure. Still down there? No, we don't know how many.
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I don't think there's been an explosion. Then you come right down?
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How is it down there? Way? I didn't turn around to look into
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flowers. I ran for the stake of my life when I heard it coming.
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Have you got any idea who's still in it? I'm not sure.
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I was working along with you, Dady Wish and David Owen. I've daby
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Evel Williams is with us too, But I can at be saying I kind
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of come to the boscaf. I'm waiting for that. As soon as the
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dust is creative, we'll go down. Have any other men come up?
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I was the last, I think answer it when you're talking about Yes,
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that's the matter with the thing, I don't say answer up there probably knocked
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it out awaiting your time. No hands Simon, Hello, Helvis, Hello?
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Who Emlin? Can you hear me? It is David Owen? Yes,
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tell him? Tell him what happened? How Helen hut Emlin. There's
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four of us in here, end of the chaps. You, David,
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Evan Lewis and me. There's Eve for Williams too? Can can you hear
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me? Eve for Williams? But he said, and you better have a
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village in South Wales. It was ugly, with the gray ugliness of the
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mining country, dirty columns, and with the inevitable property. When the picture
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starting market and I arrived from London, we only knew that there had been
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a disaster in the mind and the murder. I had a chatter the chief
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Constable of the district who had requested our aid, but he knew a little
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more than he had told us over the telephone. It was the morning of
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the second day at the Knee disaster. I sent Maffitt to the mine entrance
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to gather any information he could, while I tried to interview the widow.
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Missus Williams here I met with no success. He was under stative, and
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the village doctor refused to allow me to question her. I walked back up
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the narrow streets to the mind. It was a light drizzle falling. Geneteined
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of the entire village was gathered on that desolate depart I saw Mauffett standing near
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a shad the entrance. It was a prescific crit The eye fastened on the
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black mouth of the tunnel. The release crew's been down there for two hours
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now, should be coming up any minute, are they? They're seeing the
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shots sper intended. Mister Flowers spoke to one of them ten minutes ago.
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Mostly first from what he says, it is not too good either. Now
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you'll get any more details on the murdered man. Williams not mad. Say
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he complained of a summer cage just before the cave in and afterwards, before
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he died, he had Composton's life. That's what they say down there.
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It sounds like poison. The truck part of men. What does his name?
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What David doing? Yes, he talked to me on the phones and
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down there, and he says he knows it's poison. He isn't dohn Dandeli's
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men come on. Another cull be going down in a minute of two.
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Hello, inspect I'm a surpris any programs slow, very slow at worrying,
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very nice, tell me very nice. There's another four you see. We
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can't afford the blast all. I'd like to go down when you get close
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enough. I couldn't allow that, Inspector. And if I don't have to
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miss it's my job, you know, two days I have reason to believe
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that a man is being murdered. Mister pliers. I've come up in Scotland,
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John, because you're to be comfortable. Requested when those matter weeks.
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I want to be on the spot. But I'm not interested in policemen.
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I've got work to do something that might not interest you, mister, saving
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lives, not hunting them. Excuse me now, n thing that's right?
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Nothing, you know. Sometimes I do feel rather like a bult you,
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tony. I suppose this time it would be more like a I like a
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calf waiting for the month to come out of it. Home. You're the
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inspector on too. Yes, my name is Will Vaughan, and you come
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over here behind the set a minute. I want a word with you.
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Oh all right, it's statly walks down below. For every tennant each we
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go five follows in. Again you think's drum father might be Now well this
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is it the chaps we were talking while we were digging. We've posted better
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know no about Evar Williams. Oh go on. He was no good,
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no good at all that Evor Williams. They didn't think could strangers coming here
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and ask him questions? But it's better you know the truth and find out
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lies? Or what is the truth? Var Williams was a lad with the
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girls. It was more than one fight he had over it. Oh what
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is a great many men? And when he was going up, sorry to
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see him gone, o jame? Is that all? Yes? And I
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am grieved for his wife's poor woman. He was a fool to marry him.
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That's good for love. Well, thank you've gone this far. Will
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you name from names? It would take a Josney man or more. There
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is those three during the chef David. The only prestance. It is his
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daughter Dennis that is the latest trouble. Here he is standing over there the
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chapter vo william he was interested in her. Interested. Now there is an
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English word for you, when the talk of the women. It is more
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than that. David Owen swore he'd give Williams the terrible speaking if he didn't
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stay away from his daughter. Agreed, and he David, that is vinicus
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man. He had to be married. He knew it about the talk,
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he had up rage about it. Good topic, doesn't little good? Now
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you realize that you've given those two men the murder for murdering. That's only
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two? What about having the worst the fourth? But two days before the
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fall? And I can go on with more I may want to do.
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When the time jumps, it will be the hole village that an arrest before
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you are done. It is a great waste of time. Make your report
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that he died in the fall. You Vaughn walked away from me, his
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face black with cold out shoulders scoop, and I wondered exactly why he had
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offered the information. These people aren't insular lot right or wrong. They protect
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their own. And here I had been had did not only motive, but
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suspect. The day passed and it became dark. Bloodlights blazed down on the
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mine entrance, and the crews went down and turn up again. The women
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good tea and made food for the men. Another day came and the voices
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were those who were trapped behind tons of coal and death. What's having gone?
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The telephone line had failed. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the
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superintendent sent word to me that the next crew expected to break into the shops.
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I was getting clothing at the helmet, and a few minutes later a
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curl truck was rolling down the line deep into the mine. Abought it.
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Five miners and one chief inspector got in the guard. All right, boys,
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mine god head fast as I will. We're shoring up with timbers as
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we go. At the job of the ships over there. That's a carpenter's
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job. I ready. Now, we shouldn't have more than a dozen peaks
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a go. But slow, slow is the word you to start with.
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Pick with a turn. But if you must be here, you must inspect
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it. But stand out of the way to a trouble. I can help
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a London man in the pit. All right, there's one on the truck.
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Wait a bit. You'd have made a minor he would I think?
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I think? If he's here, being a belief, do you do anything?
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Will no m in my head to my life? Yeah? Give me
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the picture. I'll have a go for a bit, and I'm not about
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done. We were working in a tunnel, and now big enough for only
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at two men at a time. One working would pick, one carrying with
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a flood dirt and rock to the entrance. It was a sar persimer sharp,
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and men could only work a few minutes at a time, and the
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bar were born myself. We measured our progress by inches, lying on our
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stomach, hacking at the unuielding earth, ducking as a miniature landslide, fell
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about, coughing in the dusted ways were born had told the tunnel entrance.
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When my pick ludge in a seam, I tugged at it, and then
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I'm true, I'm true. Are you all right in here? Yes?
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Yes, gott we get out. I hope you brought some water? Yes,
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it is bring the water in. Huh Kenny wat except Evo Williams.
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Come on, I don't want to look at him anymore. I'll drink outside.
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Way too many juries. You're the policeman, an't you, lister Ohen
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we can talk about it outside. Come on, come on, come on
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with another pot. Come on, it's got a very little camel. Wasn't
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it and it book you so long to make. Now it's gone. Did
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Now the second act, though pursuit in the newest mind, we should head
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spend a little looking at what had once been a way to safety. Three
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feet inside the tunnel, and it was black, black, with the solidity
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of a wall. I knew that the tunnel was trophies long, but there
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was no way of knowing how much of the line and the cage and beyond
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and anyway the dead man if Williams lay huddled in a corner. When I
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look at him, I knew that day the door and had been right it
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was poison. So let's finger nails. And as I know the way,
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I suddenly realized how beastly I want. Might as well skip down and wait.
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Boys has got his cit Yes, no, no, it will make
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you more trusty. You should have brought water and with you. I'm sorry,
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it's not your phone. What happened to the telephone? I don't know.
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They were trying to find out when I came down. Well, it's
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not too bad. The air is better now they'll get through again. What's
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get name? Inspected bags? As Peter Back's a very dusty face police than
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you are, and about him? And what about him? And you were
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going to say something before, mister Owen. I was something we have talked
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about with the boys and me since we have been in here. Ah,
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what difference does it make now? It's the law. He a man doesn't
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kill, that's the law. Do you think you know who did it?
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Yes? I remember now I did not agree to it. Don't forget that,
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nor I his wife, Catherine Williams, she stood more than a body
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can dare for one as no blame. Why do you think he did it
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because of my daughter? Now, don't say it, mister Owen. Don't
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say it. A number of things I already know, David. Your gliness
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never went within mister Owen. It's a dirty lie made up by a lot
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of chattering old women with nothing better to do. She's my daughters. You
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I would feel it as much as you. I say it's true. Catherine
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Williams found out and it was too much for her. Still doesn't prove,
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No, it is. Cutton couldn't do a thing like that. She didn't
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I have been He held him in the pub, he was drunk and laugh.
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You may have tried to make up to us. But you wouldn't have
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let him. I was angry at the time, but Glynis wouldn't have let
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him. We are engaged. Nobody's arguing that you will worst let me finish.
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He was saying that he had some money put away, and that as
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soon as there were a few more pounds he was going to divorce Catherine and
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take Glynis away with him. Actually loud talk, you know what, mister
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Owen, That's all it was. Maybe, but if the world got back
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to Catherine william what then So then Catherine Williams killed him, and here we
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are, and who will be there to testify against her? I wish I
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had a drink of water, and again would tried the firm, But there
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was no time. We got in darkness, a good deal of conserving the
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batteries in our lands, and there was always a dead man in the mind.
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None of us wore a watch, and up a little wild time became
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something of the them. We counted in the remembrance of what being an age
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ago. They had been on that water for nearly three days, and I
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knew what a water was becoming. My own ears was dry and bitter.
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It never be ours ner in another day. We just turned a little tunnel
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tailing at a little dead and rocks with our hands, and we became tired
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very quickly. It's funny. But oh, I remember last week. I
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went to the tap and drank a glass of water, and then I filled
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the glass again because I thought I was too fasty, But I wasn't anymore,
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so I threw it away. I threw away with a lovely water made
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a cool sound. That's enough. If I want to talk about water,
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I want Lois. I will talk about water. It is a great comfort
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for me. But not tell me. Shut up. You are not telling
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me that. Yeah, this isn't going to do any good. Tay this
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thing? M what's for so that we can die? More story, Jurish.
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Try to telephone again. It may be working. As soon as I
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get my breast in a minute, I'll do it now. Nothing. Oh
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well, I'm going to have a bit of a sleep. Put out the
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light. M m hm. Why he doesn't stop? Together and an easy
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man. He's not telling recovered. He says, oh dead, look at
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him, make him stop. You can't taken see you everyone, there's no
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light. The dead can do you no harm. By it's fit to sleep.
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It's it will make the time pass sooner. I'm going to dig against
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im not going to sit here to die. Give me a hand with a
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black Our hands were bleeding, and every handful of rock and coal and dirt
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was an agony to pull away. The darknesses will never ending. And as
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our batteries began to fail, it became a terrifying A live thing. Was
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he Dave who found the tea cans. It hinted dully and the orange glow
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of his lamp. Look, oh, look at this boy. Listen to
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it. It's a tea can. Oh, it's wet here lovely sounds like
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it. We can measure that doesn't not there? You can first down,
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mister tryan. You've been here longer than n care be careful. You don't
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still it man lite jump yeah, no, you can't have it. Give
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it back, don't give you any of it. There's enough for all.
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You'll have your hair. So we are put it out heaven. So you'd
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treake one drump and I'm gonna kill you. I come along now. You
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can have the first drink. It's all right, that's all right, it
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is. It's ruse. He's dead. It doesn't need it, an god,
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he's just enough for sol and kill your thanks you, it's got mad.
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You've got to shit here. It's back to you. You know,
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watch me, but you can't have me. Don't come here, don't come
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here, all right? We can't let him a shoe you ba, I
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would sit and passed, Hellois, I'm giving it. Go on then,
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but don't forget him. And when we are outside, I'm going to kill
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you. You remember what I say. You'll not be sick him. Don't
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doesn't drink he does not have done. I have won that. Stay here,
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don't come to you? Then? Why don't you drink it? If
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they're not going to give it to us? So it's fine, stay away.
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I'll pour it out. So I then pour it out. I will,
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I will steal aways. Why don't you drink it? Can I tell
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you why? Because I think you'll know what's in it? You can't drink
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it? Can you this? If I want to do it, I will
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too. Eva Williams, thank some of that tea. Didn't he before he
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died? And I go on, don't a composite to me? Drink it?
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Then? That is? But it's your conclusion. I called it out
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then no one will held on. No, don't don't ease it, mister
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Black? Why did you put in that tea before you came down? And
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why are you're afraid? I'm not there as much choice as that. You're
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dying first. But if you drink your die of poisons that is you know,
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if we want to get it, we can not enough to still out.
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I don't forgive it to me now you will kill him, didn't you.
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I'm not giving a can, so you're not gonna hang it. I
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do see it. Don't don't back I'm black, Come back here, don't
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do it happen. Don't. We'll stand by your man to get away from
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me? Why am I? Why did you do it? He was wicked
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that gody you dive to die? It was cruel. Leave my flaf with
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mystery. I was engaged to Catherine ten years ago. This store her from
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me? Het to die wait twd harm I'm sorry, Evan, I am
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sorry anymore. Yeah, we'll not get out anyway because quickly I'm drinking.
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Don't the telephone hell hello hello, Yes, yes we all are and we'll
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be hit soon. What's the bath fall? Or if you be administrating away
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now or thanks, thanks very much, they'll be throwing. A few minutes
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waited, watching, listening, Evan Lewis critched away from him, the tea
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can raised to his lips. Look stok it breaking soon look and in that
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helmet as we looked to where the point of a pick appeared in the wall.
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Evan Lewis tooted the tea can and drank the poison she had given to
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ease Williams. But it was uses. We brought him to the cetage and
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for the second time his life with days. Trial was held at Bronte and
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Evan Lewis was convicted of murders. The home ticket to denied and a few
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and nine weeks later he was hanged. K you ampute. It ended welcome
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back. This was an interesting concept and I always appreciate with pursuit their willingness
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to experiment. I'm not certain the experiment worked particularly well, since they basically
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end up sitting there until the criminal reveals himself by refusing to drink the water.
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But I definitely appreciate the concept and there were some good moments of drama
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down there in the cave area. Not certain how well it served the detective
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drama side of it, and I guess the moral of the story is,
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if you're with Scotland Yard, just wait for them to bring people up from
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