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  Arched Obler's lights out. Everybody, it is later then you thing. This
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  is arch Obler bringing in another in our series of stories of the unusual.
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  And once again we caution you. These lights out stories are definitely not for
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  the timith soul. So we tell you, calmly and very sincerely, if
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  you frighten measually turn off your radio now November of nineteen thirty nine. Astronomically
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  that isn't even a blink in the eye of the universe. But it's a
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  very long time, measured in the lengths of our own, very femeral lives.
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  And that day I heard our next story. Remember that date in nineteen
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  thirty nine, A lot of heart beats before we went to war against the
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  madness of Adolf Hitler and his friend Benito listened to Badisphere Sea's very quiet,
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  Yes, your excellency, but if be very quiet under the water, no
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  motion of expense, and so love every very amusing. I hope, sir
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  sir the captain not to have everything ready by NOLSA. If you'll excuse me
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  now, you have excellenctif I go seeing no ear at the moment, doctor,
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  yes, your excellency, much too impasion my dear young friend. One
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  of the great joys of an experience is to favor it before it happens.
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  Yes, stand, talk to me as you say, your exclucy, how
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  far I'm the love We have to go to break the record? Over half
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  a mile, hm, half out the bottom, just over the record mark,
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  deeper than any man's ever gone. It will all be very amusing.
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  Certainly. The winds change always at this hour of the day, Your excellency,
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  it's time to go show you that the sea will wait for us.
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  If I am the thought that I don't think so much of my young friend.
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  Thinking is an unnecessary pastime. The emotions are much more dependable. My
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  thoughts tell me that this little excursion under the sea will be quite precarious,
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  and the other hand, my emotions tone that it will be most interesting and
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  amusing. Your excellency, We are ready. I got in you tour impatient,
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  Eh, I don't know what you mean. That is just now now,
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  don't splatter. I got my hand, my young and impatient frame.
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  They'll go aboard you're diving bell and begin out of the adventure cone attention.
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  You see, your excellency, We are quite ready. That's worth everything for
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  your sifection. Did you put in an extra oxygen tank, Captain, Yes,
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  sir, everything just as you said that. The telephone communication being tested
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  twenty times so flat. I assure you everything has been tested up the winds
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  go smoothly enough. Oh, yes, I believe. I don't want you
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  to believe. I want you to know that. I assure you go and
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  test it once. Yes that at once done? All right, that's number
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  one best number one. Well, your sunst is most comment abobout that if
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  we are going half a mile below the seas, nothing can be left a
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  chance. The pressures down there are almost the unimagination here. I know,
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  I know, particularly on this dive. Everything that the protection you mean the
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  record, I mean, your excellency, that your life is precious to the
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  state. Yes, the threat of the world has known me only as the
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  record breaker in the world of what they so quaintly term powered politics nightfall that
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  ahead of me as a record breaker in the world of science. Say doctor,
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  if all goes well, your excellency, hey, you have doubts.
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  No one can predict the ways of the sea. What are you talking about?
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  It will be quite apart from the see inside of the steel ball.
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  If this part isphere oxygen to breathe, telephone with which we communicate, lights
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  with which the seeds, why should there be any Christian question of the human
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  factor, Your excellency, If you are as cautious as they said, I
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  like that. I too am a cautious man. Oh yes, Indeed,
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  my success has been based upon determining that the unpredictable cannot occur before I until
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  I say embark upon my board adventure. I'm talking quite frankly with you.
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  He doesn't I gonna please me to do, sir, For a few hours
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  we'll be locked up in that steel ball. There's no reason you shouldn't know
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  a little about your laborism. You honor me, sir. For example,
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  I know, beyond of the shadow of a doubt, the steel cable which
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  will drop us down beneath the ocean has strength enough to hold fifty that's steel
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  fears as the one we will be in. I know too that you have
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  made let me think you've made stirty such descent thought before the ocean without the
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  slightest misadventure. The man on this cruiser that I have specially trained for the
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  work, and with my life in my hands, I'm sure they'll be particularly
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  careful on this descend. Hey, nothing, there is no doubt of it,
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  sir. Already now, sir, shall we go now, your excellences.
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  Of course, of course, careful, your excellency. The deck is
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  quite wet. You well, Thank you, Kevin, Thank you, sir.
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  And no, no, no formalagies. Let the men go about that
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  business so we can get started. Yes, your excellency, that's your workman.
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  Would you like to get into the bathroom stire first, your excellence?
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  No, no, after you. Quite a small doorway, isn't it?
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  Uh? Fortunates revoked small lean men after lean the man's see the one said
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  something about that sort, doesn't hear? I don't know much about that sort
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  of thing, Sir, I didn't imagine. Sir, right, get in,
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  do so? I follow him? Yes? Uh? Head first into
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  the steel wall. Quite about dignity, captain. Should I help you,
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  sir? No, no, I'll make it all right. You ready for
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  me? Doctor, Come ahead, sir? And a capital of a bullet
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  in, sir, careful? Uh, that's say you're all right, sir?
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  Yes, yes, of course I am. Well what are we waiting
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  for? Captain? Is close? Her up is sir, your ears,
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  cover your ears? Uh huh. The bullets and wing bolts that hold the
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  door shot they have to be tightened by hammering with a sledge over your ears,
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  sir. It's all right now, so they they've done well, what
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  mean, faro dens isn't any other way? Hammering is the only definite guarantee
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  of a water tight seals my ears? All well, and there, sir,
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  what's that a voice or the telephonsor they've communicate with us from the deck
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  every three minutes. If one of us doesn't answer within half a minute,
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  the orders are to pull us up an excellent saves precaution. Yes, who
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  need? All? Well in there, doctor, All well, they're moving,
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  Yes, lifting us out to the end of the boom, and then
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  down we go. Look so you can see the deck down there. So
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  the windows glass and clear, clearest in the world, quartz glass to stand
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  the pressure letting us down in the water, aren't there? Yes, sir?
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  In a moment, be around the Yes, I I turn the oxygen
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  hire the light so green. Yes, soon it'll be blue and a darker
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  blue until it around two thousand feet will be in the darkness that goes beyond
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  dark, complete, eternal night, eternal night under the water our amusing.
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  All well down there, sir, All well, I'll fall down that way
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  about eleven hundred feet, so it's hard to believe it, but it's almost
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  a quarter of a mile of water crushing down upon it. The word crushing
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  is most inappropriate at this time, my young friend. My apologies, your
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  excellency. I've been watching the water. You said it would be as night.
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  If it isn't black, it's it's blue, the strangest blue. A
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  few more hundred feet and the there will be no more color in the water.
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  So the light out there what I can't quite make it out, sir,
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  Perhaps some sort of a humorous plankton. It's amusing. The fishes carrying
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  along their own electric clods, the darks alive with themself. Well, look,
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  sir, what that small flat fish you see? Even his teeth gleamed
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  with these humorous mucus. I caught that sort in the traws. They can
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  eat organisms as large as they are. Wait, I I'll turn on the
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  switch lighting your seat. No, no, no, never mind. I
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  didn't come under the sea out of any interest in the most bits of fish,
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  as you say, sir, they made a light up like a train
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  of the dark, oh with the portholes of the third to be a more
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  appropriate figure of speech. Oh seeing why I haven't seeing them? Are uh
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  well down there, sir? Oh well how far down? Now? Ask
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  him how far? Thirteen hundred and fifty feet right, make good time?
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  Huh, yes, so they lowered us very quickly, sir, a six
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  football containing a very earnest young man. I'm a leader of the state headed.
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  Uh what we say, doctor, A new record, sir, is
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  that as far as your only imagination carries you at the moment, I cannot
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  say, your excellency, perhaps anyway, see under the cable we a'll discuss
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  life from death very profoundly, he my friend, the losses are end of
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  the sea. All well down there, sir, All well, twenty two
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  hundred feet right, so much further we've four thousand seat of the cable.
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  You were right. It's the darkness out there now, it's the darker the
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  name the Knight of the manner's ever seen. It's amusing. All well down
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  there, sir, Ah well, twenty eight hundred feet shirt right, your
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  excellency, Yes, In ten or eleven minutes we will have broken the record.
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  You keep your eyes so close to that window. Might I ask why
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  I thought I saw something out there? What? Uh? Something huge?
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  It gave us a pale green light and that was gone so quickly. Kay,
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  and I'm quite uh I've sent him the sixty. Well now now it's
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  in the fun of darkness. Amuses me? Tell me, darkling, you'll
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  have the trips. You've seen anything out there of vague huge? You know
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  what I mean? Yes, sir, several times, well, shadowy and
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  indistinct. I couldn't say what the stuff? Can't you guess? I have
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  no answer? Oh? Well, down there, Oh tell him, yes,
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  yes, yes, I'm stop annoying it. Oh well, I tell
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  him hard compliments. So you've reached three thousand, twenty eight feet set.
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  This was BB's record. Huh, it's the old one. Three thousands and
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  thirty broken it. Thirty one hundred, that's that's quite a matter. Thirty
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  one hundred and fifty. That's what you hear me break in the record on
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  a few feet of spare all of them the hold of out thirty two hundred.
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  That's why you out of your head. I gave you orders. I
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  have'em pull us up. I had enough of this. I tell you
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  what I've what what happened? Happened? We just blended at the bottom of
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  the sea, that's all. Why did you takenore of my orders? I
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  said to go up? What are you doing now? What does that leave
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  that you threw on for me? Yes? I donnswer happened? You've forgotten
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  something? Doctor? What to say, sir? Your excellency, excellency here
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  at the bottom of the sea. What what happened to you all of a
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  sudden? You? Uh? The exactly? Miscreating a new record? A
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  little too much for you? Ain't my young friend fall? Its? Understand?
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  Oh? Now singing the ship and heaven draw us up? Yeah,
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  a little adventure as Oh you hear me, I said, signal a ship
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  howl you out of your mind to completely They telephone them at once, you
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  hear me. A telephone consists of a carbon transmitter, receiver, actuating battery,
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  and connecting wire. We have no telephone. Get one side, hello,
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  hello out there, Hello, Hello, answer me hello, hello blast
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  you answer me Hello. But they don't do the wire that to on the
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  Would you know how to fix it? Your excellency? Huh? I see
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  I happened when they bumped on the bottom, didn't it? Well? Can't
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  you fix it? I can, but I won't. Your excellency, what
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  is this? It's taken you a great number of moments longer than I expected
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  to ask that question. You notice that I've called you your excellency a couple
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  of times and that was the end of that. From now on, I
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  will call you your infernal excellency? Or how amusing? Still amusing? Yes?
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  I don't believe it. Do you think it's some kind of madness on
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  my part? But you'll do something about it? Not I you? I?
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  You have an emergency? Where of signally? Yes, I know you
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  have your flash the searchlight on off three times and the floor of carn't try
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  to do it up on beck and they know that it's an emergency. I'll
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  go ahead and do it, and perhaps I'll forget your lit or shall we
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  call it joke? I am quite content to stay down here, turn on
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  the searchlight all right, out of it myself. Why waste your time?
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  You've so little of it left. What do you mean by that? The
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  search light too is disconnected? Why there's no need of it? It will
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  be best to die in the dark, die, Yes, this is impossible.
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  I investigated you, your records, your family, your associates, cleared
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  this record in the state. You have no reason on the world to kill
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  me. Kill me. It's very funny a young Mtake had hit fool,
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  kill me. It's very amusing. You'll be afraid. So it is it
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  possible that you've forgotten the final emergency signal? You fool? As I said,
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  signal the signal look silent. I'll try to tell you if I'm a
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  scheduled and Mandy leones, I'm s uh for this that if you've forgotten nothing,
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  it's been more than three minutes in the last signal. If what you
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  say is true, why aren't we moving? We we are for all I
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  know we we we ah? Are we the darkness? Who can tell if
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  there's enough for motion? You know? Emotionless? As quiet as in a
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  tube? Appropriately And we'll stay here? I know they uh that leave up
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  on the roof that I pull. Well, it's through the end of steel
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  cable free. Yes, save us the card between our sails and the ship
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  and the world. No, we are here, your infernal excellency, down
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  here to stay. No, you lie, I don't believe you. That'll
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  pull us up the telephone here here you up there, listen, get me
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  up, Get me up. You are there. Hear me, it's your
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  leader. Get me out of here. Get me out of here, you
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  hear me, Get me out of here, out of here. I believe
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  uh. Oxygen left for another hour. And it takes you ten precious minutes
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  of your precious life to believe. You do believe you're going to die?
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  Now, don't you that? I I was sure nothing could happen, every
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  great detail of the machinery, the record of every member of the crew,
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  and I was one of those who was perfectly harmless him. Yes, your
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  past, since the boy had trained in the schools of the state, as
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  far as an official. Why do you do this to me? Why your
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  ego is so great that, even now, knowing you're going to die here
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  with me, you're less concerned with death than you are with knowing wherein you
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  fail? Answer me? Why do you do this? You were trained in
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  my school? Who's bought I think to think the way you should think?
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  Who have there made you do this thing? And why it will be a
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  slow death, the slow as the death of my country? Answer me who
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  and why? Your mouth will bite for their and there won't be enough to
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  let you live, And yet there'll be enough so that you won't quite die.
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  You'll tell me you will. Your lungs will reach up through your mouth
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  the breath of they are just another. There won't be another. Un as
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  you die, you'll know. I want to know one thing. Why do
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  you do this? Why? Why? Why? Yes? I'll give you
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  your wife. You train me in your schools, and from morning to night
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  what went into my head was only what you decreed was right and proper for
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  a good citizen of your eternal state, or no is it crabbed my head
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  full. But there's one place you and your books and your speeches couldn't reach
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  my heart. Your heart. Yes, heart, you hurt me half.
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  My head said believe. My heart said no. My head said obey.
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  My heart said no, that's me. You made a mistake, your devil.
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  You didn't start in young enough with me, for the heart that was
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  born inside of me has brought you here to die. I I don't understand.
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  Wait, I'll turn a little more oxygen on. That will give me
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  a little more strength to keep on telling you you're fives and cut the breath
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  left for you after I'm finished. What did I say, Yes, that
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  you didn't condition me quite well enough. Should have started with the embryo.
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  For somewhere along the line, a little humanity got inside of me that cried
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  out against what you were doing. It grew and grew until I said,
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  you had to die, and you will die. Yes, hid in the
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  black under the sea, and the old rule run for you, march for
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  you. Ended here. What if you have to say to that, you
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  fool? Fool? Is that all you answer? Yes, fool. If
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  I I'm a fool to die here with you, you call me a pool
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  when I know that ending here I give a new beginning to those up there.
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  Yes, such a fool. I'll stop saying that. They won't say
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  it back in the cities when they know that they're free, You fool.
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  You think the finger of me will make them free? Yes, yes,
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  of course it will. I call you a fool again. How do you
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  think I became the head of the state through my great wisdom? I'm really
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  not so wise through my great courage. No man has courage of that's all,
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  to stand up, single hand, anted against the bullets and the barness
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  of the entrenched powers. And how how did I do it with lies and
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  ruthlessness and cruelcy. I know you don't know a thing. You saw the
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  end results surrounded by pump and circumstance, and you couldn't see them. Means
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  al right. I know I'm going to die. A man's expected to die
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  as long as I have. The actuality isn't quite as frightening as you might
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  think. Since I am going to die, and I'll have the one small
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  satisfaction of showing you that you are an empty headed fool, stop saying that,
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  huh, you too have an ego. Appinally, it's lived for weeks
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  on how you'd make me plead and beg and sclimb down on my knees.
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  I had a few months off his Tailian didn't die. You like that.
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  You don't like this. I was sitting in the dark, so calmly telling
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  you that you're a fool. I haven't failed. You're here. You fail
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  because if you're kidding me and yourself to give them back that freedom, whatever
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  that word means, is are dying quiet in vain. You're saying that because
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  you'll think, No, don't talk. Listen to me. I'll tell you
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  where you failed. I came into power, not alone from my own strength,
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  but because the conditions of our country were such that other men sitting on
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  their wealth came to a decision that I alone could keep them there. But
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  it was you tell you, listen, when an ancient rule of privilege is
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  threatened, it seeks to live, no matter what the cost. The cost
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  of them was me, and they found me worth it. For I fell
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  to the mass. None of the wealth had work to build, but only
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  fighting phrases of prejudice and hate to cost the men who made me nothing but
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  the rent of the halls for the simple to hear myopiates. And so I
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  called you fool, fool to die and fool to kill me. Well,
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  the conditions that made me will still exist when I'm dead, you pray them
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  and me. But what of hunger? What a rutheless exploit patient? These
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  will still be free of that? But hate and desperation in the men.
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  So the ones who gave me power will find a new leader to stop the
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  rumnings rebellion with all the tricks that I taught them. A new leader,
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  you will hear me, fool or a new leader. No, it isn't
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  true. It can't be true. It's so dark. If I could see
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  your face, to see the fool discovering he's a fool, they will be
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  free, They will, they will f What magic do you think will come
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  into the air when I am dead? Your men forget that greed and say,
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  won't be quite enough, not enough for everyone. I ne'd share according
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  to his needs. No fool with me, all without me. The game
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  will be played just as it always has been played. So you're a fool
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  and die like one. I Well, what could I have done? I
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  had to do some pilitarly. What you could have done? You could have
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  done the one thing that would have, in time help destroy not only me
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  but those who made me. You could have gone to the people. Ah,
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  Yes, walked among them, worked among them, and not every chance
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  whispered of them the things I kept from them. The nurse would have been
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  around your neck every time you opened up your mouth. And yet in that
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  talking of liberty and freedom and common decency and all the rest of that sort
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  of thing, the bean for or meaning in this futile murdering of me,
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  I've had them hunted down and shot, each of those who dared to whisper
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  among the people. But as they died. I didn't call them fools because
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  I knew that they were wise. Not only throw the will to live and
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  the door, the great bludgeoning mess of that people was their hope of making
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  that new world they wanted. Uh, I bothered talking. Yes, they
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  I'm tired. Had miss something heavy? Fool? Why why? Why more
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  explanations? Alright, the last time? You think I'm going to sit here
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  and wait and count my every breath until the darks crawling with horrors and I'm
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  crawling. No, I'll lend it now quickly, Yes, faster than the
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  bullet shot. Give me something heavy, I tell you, I'll smash the
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  glass, the water, tons of it smashing in. I'll be dead,
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  dead, dead, faster than the thought, and never end it. Give
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  me something that will smash the glass. All well down there, sir,
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  so yes, telephone, all will take us up. Okay, you're moving,
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  gets water on the glass, We're moving, doctor the cable. I
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  lied, But all this time, why my orders to the crew were to
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  leave us alone on the bottom, and as soon as the slackening of the
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  wire showed them we'd hit the bottom. Tell if I reconnected it while you
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  talked, and you didn't really mean to kill me. Kill you. Yes,
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  I need to kill you. Had it all planned out, tell you
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  what I told you, and then you go quite crazy with fear, and
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  after that I'd kill you. Twenty nine hundred feet All well down there,
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  sir, all well, and yet you didn't. The lights of the creatures
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  out there, blinking of stars and a cold night, why didn't you kill
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  me? I wanted to know what would have been the good of it.
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  The fool of the figure had died together, no good of it. So
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  you believe me, even a fool can understand. Fertility water is getting lighter.
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  Soon we'll be back up there. It'll be very strange. At first.
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  I don't much care. Now you don't ask what happens to me.
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  You know I told you many things down there didn't die. There's too many
• 28:30
  things. A man in doubt, as I was, talks too much.
• 28:37
  And since you have necessity heard of what I said. When they get there,
• 28:41
  and I will probably have you shot, the victim sentences his murder,
• 28:48
  it will be most amusing. It is later than you think