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Speaker 14: Penniston Road, Clapham, August the 20th, 1945. I have had
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Speaker 14: what I believe to be the most remarkable day in
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Speaker 14: my life. And while the events are still fresh in
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Speaker 14: my mind, I wish to put them down on paper
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Speaker 14: as clearly as possible. Let me say at the outset
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Speaker 14: that my name is James Clarence Withencroft. You must remember
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Speaker 14: that in order to have the full implication of my story.
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Speaker 14: James Clarence Withencroft. I'm 40 years old, in perfect health,
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Speaker 14: never having known a day's illness. By profession, I am
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Speaker 14: an artist. Not a very successful one, but I earn
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Speaker 14: enough money by my black-and-white work to satisfy my necessary wants.
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Speaker 5: My only near relative, a sister, died five.
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Speaker 14: Years ago, so that there is no one in particular
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Speaker 14: to whom I address this manuscript.
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Speaker 5: Only you, who might by chance read it some day.
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Speaker 14: For, because of the peculiar circumstance about which you will
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Speaker 14: soon hear, I have the strong premonition.
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Speaker 5: That I shall never live to tell anyone about it.
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Speaker 14: I breakfasted this morning at nine at the usual time.
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Speaker 14: It was no different from any other morning. And after
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Speaker 14: glancing through the morning paper, I lighted my pipe. And
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Speaker 14: I proceeded to let my mind wander in the hope
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Speaker 14: that I might chance upon some subject for my pencil.
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Speaker 14: The room, though door and window were open, was oppressively hot.
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Speaker 14: And I just made up my mind that the coolest
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Speaker 14: and most comfortable place in the neighborhood would be the
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Speaker 14: deep end of the.
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Speaker 5: Public swimming bath When....
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Speaker 14: When I was suddenly shaken, a feeling swept over me
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Speaker 14: such as I'd never experienced before.
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Speaker 5: I attempted to rise to my feet, but.
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Speaker 14: Somehow it seemed as though I had suddenly been fastened
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Speaker 14: to my chair. My hand went out in an effort
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Speaker 14: to brace myself. And then, before I knew what I
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Speaker 14: was doing, my pencil was in my hand, and I.
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Speaker 5: Began to draw. Draw.
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Speaker 14: It was as though someone had taken my hand and
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Speaker 14: was moving it across the paper, swiftly, in bold strokes.
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Speaker 14: And then I seemed to take over. My hand, under
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Speaker 14: its own power, began to draw. I soon forgot the
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Speaker 14: oppressive heat. Everything was forgotten in this frantic feeling that
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Speaker 14: the sketch must be finished as soon as possible. I
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Speaker 14: had no idea how long I worked until I heard
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Speaker 14: the clock of St. Jude's in the distance. It was
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Speaker 14: four o'clock, and I had started just after breakfast. Now,
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Speaker 14: for the first time since I'd begun, I actually seemed
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Speaker 14: to see what I.
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Speaker 5: Had been sketching. I was surprised.
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Speaker 14: The final result was I felt sure the best thing
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Speaker 14: I'd ever done. It showed a criminal in the dock
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Speaker 14: immediately after the judge had pronounced sentence. The man was fat,
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Speaker 14: enormously fat. The flesh hung in rolls about his chin.
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Speaker 14: It creased his huge, stumpy neck. He was clean-shaven, or
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Speaker 14: perhaps I should say a few days before he must
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Speaker 14: have been clean-shaven. And he was almost bald. He stood
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Speaker 14: there before the judge, his short, clumsy fingers.
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Speaker 5: Clasping the rail, looking straight in front of him.
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Speaker 14: The feeling that his expression conveyed was not so much
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Speaker 14: one of horror as of utter, absolute collapse. There seemed
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Speaker 14: nothing in the man strong enough to sustain that mountain
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Speaker 14: of flesh. And then And then I saw that the
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Speaker 14: sketch wasn't complete, for the man's other hand seemed to
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Speaker 14: be clutching an instrument of some.
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Speaker 5: Kind, a weapon, but it hadn't been completed.
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Speaker 14: I had made this sketch, and yet I had no
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Speaker 14: recollection of what I'd intended the man to carry in
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Speaker 14: his other hand. I took up my pencil again, and
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Speaker 14: I attempted to fill in the fuzzy outline, but it
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Speaker 14: was useless. It was as though my fingers had suddenly
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Speaker 14: turned to lead. I sat down, and I felt the
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Speaker 14: moisture slowly forming on my forehead.
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Speaker 5: And once again, I was conscious of the oppressive heat.
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Speaker 14: Then I knew that there would be no finishing of
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Speaker 14: the sketch, at any rate not for the moment.
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Speaker 5: So I rolled it up, and without quite knowing why,
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Speaker 5: I put it in my pocket.
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Speaker 14: In spite of my peculiar inspiration, I was filled with
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Speaker 14: a rare sense of happiness which the knowledge of a.
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Speaker 5: Good thing well done gives. I believe that I set
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Speaker 5: out with the idea of calling upon Trenton.
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Speaker 14: For I remember walking along Lytton Street and turning to
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Speaker 14: the right along Gilchrist Road, at the bottom of the
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Speaker 14: hill where the men are at work on the new
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Speaker 14: tram line. From there onwards I have only the vaguest
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Speaker 14: recollection of where I went. Through parks, along crowded streets,
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Speaker 14: always conscious of the awful heat. that came up from
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Speaker 14: the dusty asphalt pavement in a suffocating wave. And I remember, too,
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Speaker 14: the hollow sound of my footsteps as I moved along.
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Speaker 14: Although walking aimlessly, I somehow knew that there was a goal.
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Speaker 5: A something to which I was drawn.
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Speaker 14: I longed for the thunder promised by the great banks
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Speaker 14: of copper-colored clouds that hung low over the western sky.
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Speaker 14: I've really no idea how far I walked when a
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Speaker 14: small boy roused me from my abstraction.
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Speaker 2: You got the time, mister?
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Speaker 5: Twenty minutes to seven.
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Speaker 12: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: Hot enough for you, sir?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 14: When he left me, I began to take stock of
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Speaker 14: my bearings. I found myself standing before a gate that
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Speaker 14: led into a yard bordered by a strip of thirsty earth.
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Speaker 14: There were flowers, purple stock and scarlet geranium, and great
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Speaker 14: numbers of bees droned over them. I stood looking down
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Speaker 14: at them for a moment, and then, for some reason,
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Speaker 14: I looked up. Over the entrance to the place, there
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Speaker 14: was a board with the inscription, Charles Atkinson, Monumental Mason,
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Speaker 14: Worker in English and Italian Marbles. From the yard itself
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Speaker 14: came a cheery whistle, a noise of hammer blows, and
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Speaker 14: a cold sound of steel meeting stone. A sudden impulse
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Speaker 14: made me enter, and I went in, in the direction
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Speaker 14: of the noise. There was a man, sitting with his
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Speaker 14: back towards me.
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Speaker 5: He was busy at work on a slab of curiously-painted marble.
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Speaker 14: Then, without turning, his hammer stopped in mid-air, as he
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Speaker 14: was about to bring it down on his chisel. He
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Speaker 14: held his position a moment before turning, but I knew
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Speaker 14: that he was aware of my presence.
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Speaker 5: And when he turned, I saw his face.
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Speaker 14: It was, although I'd never seen him before, it was
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Speaker 14: the face of the man I had been drawing.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it was the face of the man whose sketch
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Speaker 5: was in my pocket.
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Speaker 14: He sat there on his low stool, huge and elephantine,
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Speaker 14: the sweat pouring from his scalp, not speaking. Then he
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Speaker 14: took a red silk handkerchief and he mopped his brow.
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Speaker 14: Although this face that looked up at me was the
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Speaker 14: same as my sketch, the expression was absolutely different. Suddenly
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Speaker 14: the puzzled expression left his face and he smiled as
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Speaker 14: if we were old friends.
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Speaker 5: And he walked over and he took my hand.
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Speaker 2: Good day, sir. Good day.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry to intrude.
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Speaker 2: Not at all.
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Speaker 14: Everything is so hot and glary outside. This is like
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Speaker 14: an oasis in the wilderness.
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Speaker 11: I don't know about an oasis, but it certainly is hot.
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Speaker 11: Take a seat, sir.
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Speaker 14: He pointed to the end of the gravestone on which
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Speaker 14: he was at work, and I sat down.
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Speaker 2: Very hot.
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Speaker 5: It's a beautiful piece of stone you've got hold of.
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Speaker 2: In a way, it is.
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Speaker 11: The surface here is as fine as anything you could wish.
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Speaker 11: There's a big flaw at the back. Oh, I don't
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Speaker 11: expect you'd notice it. Oh, I shouldn't think so.
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Speaker 2: I could never really do a good job at a
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Speaker 2: bit of marble like that.
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Speaker 11: It would be all right in the summer like this.
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Speaker 11: Wouldn't mind the blasted heat. Wait until the winter comes.
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Speaker 5: Winter?
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Speaker 11: There's nothing quite like frost to find out the weak
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Speaker 11: points in stone.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 2: A gravestone, you see.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I see. Then what's this one for?
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Speaker 3: Heh.
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Speaker 2: You'd hardly believe if I was to tell you, but
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Speaker 2: it's for exhibition.
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Speaker 5: It's the truth.
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Speaker 2: Artists have exhibitions, so do grocers and butchers.
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Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 11: We have them too. All the latest little things in Edstone's,
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Speaker 11: you know.
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Speaker 5: He went on to talk of marbles, which sort of marble.
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Speaker 14: Best withstood wind and rain, and which were easiest to work.
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Speaker 14: Then of his garden and some new sort of carnation
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Speaker 14: he had bought. At the end of every other minute,
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Speaker 14: he would drop his tools, wipe his shining head.
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Speaker 5: This heat.
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Speaker 11: This heat's bad. A man's not responsible for what he does.
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Speaker 5: This heat. I said little, for I felt uneasy.
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Speaker 14: There was something unnatural, uncanny in all of this. The
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Speaker 14: feeling that I'd experienced it all before. The oppressive heat,
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Speaker 14: the fragrance of the stocks in the air, the conversation
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Speaker 14: about the marble, the flowers, everything as though I had
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Speaker 14: experienced it before. And yet I knew that I'd never
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Speaker 14: ever been in this section of town before. I tried
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Speaker 14: to persuade myself that at least I'd seen him before.
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Speaker 14: That his face, unknown to me, had found a place
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Speaker 14: in some out-of-the-way corner of my memory. But I knew
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Speaker 14: that I was practicing little more than a plausible piece
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Speaker 14: of self-deception.
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Speaker 5: As I sat there quietly, watching him, he looked up
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Speaker 5: at me and he said... There.
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Speaker 11: What do you think of that?
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Speaker 5: He said it with an air of evident pride. A
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Speaker 5: job well done.
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Speaker 14: I could sense that he was experiencing the same feeling
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Speaker 14: I had experienced when I'd finished my sketch.
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Speaker 5: Then he got up with a sigh of relief... Oh, heart.
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Speaker 11: Heart, ain't it?
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Speaker 14: I was seated in such a position that I was
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Speaker 14: unable to see his work. And for some reason, I
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Speaker 14: didn't move. Suddenly, he began to read what he'd carved
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Speaker 14: on the tombstone.
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Speaker 5: He spoke deliberately and with a flat voice.
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Speaker 11: In the midst of life, we are in death. Born
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Speaker 11: January 18, 1905.
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Speaker 5: I looked up at the start. This man had read
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Speaker 5: my exact birthday.
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Speaker 11: He passed away very suddenly on August 20th, 1945.
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Speaker 5: That's today.
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Speaker 2: We usually use a present date on these exhibition stones.
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Speaker 2: Do you.
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Speaker 5: Do you usually put a name on them, too?
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 11: Sacred to the memory of... James Clarence Withencroft.
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Speaker 6: THE END.
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Speaker 5: Cold shudders swept over me and i sat.
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Speaker 14: There in silence the sound of birds and crickets seemed
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Speaker 14: loud in my ears as we stood there looking at
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Speaker 14: each other saying nothing and then he mopped his brow
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Speaker 14: again hot hot i was finally able to speak where
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Speaker 14: where did you see that name oh i.
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Speaker 11: Didn't see it anywhere Appointed some name, and I put
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Speaker 11: down the first that came into my head.
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Speaker 5: It's a strange coincidence, but it happens to be mine.
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Speaker 2: What? That's your name? You're James Clarence... Withencroft. Yes.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 11: And the date's?
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Speaker 5: I can only answer for the birth date. It's correct.
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Speaker 2: Oh. That's a rum go.
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Speaker 5: I made a sketch this morning. Of you.
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Speaker 2: Of me? But you've never seen me before. No.
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Speaker 5: Oh. Oh. I took my sketch from my pocket and
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Speaker 5: I showed it to him.
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Speaker 14: As he looked, the expression on his face altered, until
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Speaker 14: it became more and more like that of the man
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Speaker 14: I had drawn.
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Speaker 2: And it was only the other day before that I
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Speaker 2: told Maria there were no such things as ghosts.
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Speaker 5: Neither of us had seen a ghost, but I knew
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Speaker 5: what he meant. Then I spoke to him.
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Speaker 6: You.
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Speaker 5: You probably heard my name someplace.
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Speaker 15: Yes.
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Speaker 2: You must have seen me somewhere and forgotten it.
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 11: Were you at Clacton-on-Sea last July?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 5: No, I've never been to Clacton in my life.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 14: And we were silent for some time again. And we
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Speaker 14: stood there looking at one another. And at the two
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Speaker 14: dates on the gravestone. And the birth one was right.
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Speaker 14: And the other was today.
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Speaker 2: Well, come inside and have some supper.
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Speaker 14: His wife was a strange little woman. who was pallid
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Speaker 14: with the look of those who lived their lives indoors.
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Speaker 14: Her husband introduced me as a friend of his who
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Speaker 14: was an artist, and he informed her that I was
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Speaker 14: staying to supper. I spoke, making.
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Speaker 5: Some comment that I hoped I wouldn't be an intrusion,
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Speaker 5: and she looked up at me and she said, You
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Speaker 5: have a pleasing voice, Mr. Withencroft, and you're welcome in
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Speaker 5: my home. I'm sorry Charles has not brought you here before.
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Speaker 5: Very little was said during the meal.
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Speaker 14: And after the sardines and portacress had been removed, she
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Speaker 14: walked over to her cupboard and she.
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Speaker 5: Took down a thin black book. And as she handed
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Speaker 5: it to me, she spoke. Would you read aloud, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Wytham Croft?
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Speaker 14: Puzzled, I looked down at the book which she'd opened
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Speaker 14: and placed before me.
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Speaker 5: It was a very tiny book.
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Speaker 14: The Prophet, it was called, by an author run known
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Speaker 14: to me with a strange eastern name, Khalil Gibran. And
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Speaker 14: my eyes fell across the page, and suddenly I was
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Speaker 14: reading aloud, as she'd asked me to. Then Almitra spoke, saying,
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Speaker 14: we would ask now of death. And he said, you
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Speaker 14: would know the secret of death.
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Speaker 5: How shall you find it unless you seek it in
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Speaker 5: the heart of life?
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Speaker 14: The owl, whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day...
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Speaker 14: cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed
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Speaker 14: behold the spirit of death... open your heart wide unto
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Speaker 14: the body of life. For life and death are one...
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Speaker 14: even as the river and the sea are one. In
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Speaker 14: the depth of your hopes and desires... lies your silent
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Speaker 14: knowledge of the beyond. Unlike seeds dreaming beneath the snow,
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Speaker 14: your heart dreams of spring.
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Speaker 5: Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate
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Speaker 5: to eternity.
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Speaker 14: Your fear of death is but the trembling of the
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Speaker 14: shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is
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Speaker 14: to be laid upon him in honor. Is the shepherd
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Speaker 14: not joyful beneath his tremblings? that he shall wear the
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Speaker 14: mark of the king? Yet is he not more mindful
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Speaker 14: of his trembling? For what is it to die, but
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Speaker 14: to stand naked in the wind, and to melt into
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Speaker 14: the sun?
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Speaker 5: And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the.
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Speaker 14: Breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and
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Speaker 14: expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from
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Speaker 14: the river of silence shall you indeed sing, And when
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Speaker 14: you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin
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Speaker 14: to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs,
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Speaker 14: then shall you truly dance.
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Speaker 5: When I looked up, Mr. Atkinson had gone. but his
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Speaker 5: wife stood before me, and as she took the book,
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Speaker 5: she spoke. Thank you. Then I went outside, and I
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Speaker 5: found Atkinson sitting on the gravestone and smoking. He looked
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Speaker 5: up at me. Hot. Hot.
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Speaker 11: Man's not responsible for what he might do in this heat.
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Speaker 11: She never asked anyone to read aloud before.
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Speaker 5: And then we talked about the sketch again.
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Speaker 2: He looked at it. Likeness is me, all right.
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Speaker 5: On trial? You must excuse my asking, but.
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Speaker 5: Do you know of anything you've done for which you
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Speaker 5: could be put on trial?
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Speaker 2: No, I've done nothing. Not yet.
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Speaker 14: He got up, fetched a can from the porch... And
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Speaker 14: he began to water the flowers.
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Speaker 11: Twice a day regular in the hot weather. And then
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Speaker 11: the heat sometimes gets the better of the delicate ones.
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Speaker 2: And first. Good Lord, they could never stand it. Where
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Speaker 2: do you live?
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Speaker 5: I told him my address.
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Speaker 14: It would take an hour's quick walk to get back home.
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Speaker 14: And he stopped watering. And he faced me squarely. It's
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Speaker 14: both go back home tonight, you'd take your chance of accidents.
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Speaker 14: A cart may run over you.
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Speaker 11: There's always banana skins and orange peels. They say nothing
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Speaker 5: He spoke of the improbable.
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Speaker 14: With an intense seriousness that would have been laughable six
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Speaker 5: But I did not laugh.
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Speaker 2: Then it'll be tomorrow, do you see?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 11: We'll go upstairs and smoke. It may be cooler inside.
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Speaker 5: And to my surprise, I agree.
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Speaker 14: We are sitting in a long, low room beneath the eaves.
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Speaker 14: Atkinson has sent his wife to bed. He himself is
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Speaker 14: busy sharpening some tools at a little oilstone. smoking one
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Speaker 14: of my cigars the while. And as I look at
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Speaker 14: of what the man in the picture holds in his hands.
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Speaker 14: But while I had not been able to sketch it before,
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Speaker 14: I am able to do so now.
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Speaker 5: It is... a chisel.
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Speaker 14: And it is stained... with dark liquid. The sketch is
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Speaker 14: hear it in the distance. It is ominous, but it
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Speaker 5: Be broken soon.
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Speaker 14: And the day will soon be over. It is close
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Speaker 14: to twelve. I am writing this.
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Speaker 5: At a shaky table before the open window. The leg
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Speaker 5: The day is over. And I shall be going home.
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