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Good evening.

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This is called a rack, a kind of
medieval

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chaise longue.

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The victim lies down and his limbs are
fastened to the rollers at each end.

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The body is then gradually stretched to
and past the breaking point.

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They were quite droll in those days.

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You see a Latin inscription placed so
the victim can't read it.

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Nunc potes altior quam illam.

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Meaning, now you can be taller than she
is.

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Tonight we're presenting a play entitled
The Wax Work.

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First, however, we have the 20th century
equivalent of the rack.

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Now please, no screams, after all.

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This hurts me more than it does you.

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God, please.

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Here's a shilling, isn't it?

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She's waxed, sir. What?

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Of course.

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Wax. It happens all the time.

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That's a comfort.

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Would you care for a souvenir booklet?

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Yes. Two shillings.

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I'm looking for Mr. Mariner.

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His office is over there.

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Hold on.

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I believe you'll find him next door.

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Oh, thank you.

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Don't move.

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Please, please, watch what you're doing.

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Albert! Albert!

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He shouldn't have been left here.

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Albert, he shouldn't have been left
here. It isn't safe.

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Take him out, will you, please?

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Here.

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You really must be more careful.

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Wait.

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What are you doing here, young man?

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The public isn't allowed in this part of
the building. My name is Raymond

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Houston. I'm from the Illustrated
Weekly, This World. I wrote you...

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About doing a feature story?

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Oh, yes.

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Yes, I remember.

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Well, shall we have another look at
this?

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May I?

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I'm afraid that's rather out of drawing.

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Yes, I turned your letter over to Mr.
Roberts, our public relations man. Yeah,

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spoke to Mr. Roberts yesterday, but,
well, I simply had to see you, so I...

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I took the liberty of finding my way up
here.

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Yes, that's a liberty you hadn't ought
to take. I wanted to persuade you to let

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me spend the night in the murderer's
den.

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Oh, I'm sure Mr.

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Roberts has told you that that would be
quite impossible.

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I have an idea for a very interesting
layout with photographs.

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Be good publicity for you.

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Well, I mean, not that your famous
museum needs it, of course. You know, in

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order to become an artist, I mean, what?

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One month.

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turn oneself into a combination artist
and surgeon.

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One must learn the relation between bone
and muscle,

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the precise train which movement places
upon tendons

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and joints.

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You see?

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I'd call my article A Night With
Mariner's Murderers.

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Ah, would you now?

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Yeah, a heading like that would attract
a lot of readers.

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Sure, it'd cause a lot of interest.

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I take that.

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Herbert.

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I want you to see this.

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She is removing the lines and bubbles
that a mole leaves on a cat.

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Well, everybody knows that a mariner
waxwork is perfect.

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Wrong.

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It's the imperfection.

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The blemish, the wrinkle, the thousand
signs by which nature writes the diary

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of a human life.

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May I?

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Butchery!

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Mr. Hewson, why is it so important to
you to spend the night in my

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murderous den?

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Well, I... Perhaps I'd better give you
the real reason.

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You see, well,

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I like to gamble.

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Ah.

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Cards or horses?

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Cards.

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Well, the other night I lost a good deal
of money.

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to an Englishman I know very slightly, a
man called Dickie Morrison.

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Well, to cut the story short, I gave him
a check which I knew would bounce.

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That is a criminal offense, you know. He
notified me yesterday that he intends

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to prosecute unless I can pay.

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Now, my editor wants this story very
badly.

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I know that if you'll let me spend the
night here and write my article, I can

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earn enough to pay the debt.

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Mr. Hewson, you put me in a very
difficult position.

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Her Majesty looks rather well today,
don't you think?

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What's that, sir?

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Each one of our wax figures gets a
beauty treatment every four months. And

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Virgin Queen has just returned from
her...

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Good day, Mrs.

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Knox. How is your rheumatism?

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Much better.

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Thank you, sir.

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That's quite all right.

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You'll notice that hair is put into a
wax head.

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One strand at a time. Look, Mr. Merida,
my job, my future, everything depends on

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this. Now, look, young man.

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I can't be made to feel responsible for
your predicament.

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Haven't you any friends?

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Any friends I can borrow from? Is that
your definition of friendship?

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The answer's no.

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Actually, I've only been in London for a
few months.

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This is a young man that you had an
encounter with a little while ago.

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His name is Burnett.

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Or was.

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Yes, I'm afraid he'll be the last
starboarder in my den of murderers.

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Oh, why?

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Well, any day now, Parliament will pass
a law putting an end to capital

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punishment.

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This fellow was executed this morning
and so obliged us in the nick of time.

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He was a barber.

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By day.

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By night, a murderer in time's over.

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And always with a razor.

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I know. I covered his trial.

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I lost a bet on him, too. I bet he
wouldn't be convicted.

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Oh? Why do you think that?

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Oh, I don't know.

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He used to practice mesmerism.

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I see.

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And you thought he might mesmerize the
jury?

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Or the witnesses?

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Or perhaps even the judge?

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I know it sounds ridiculous, but he had
extraordinary eyes.

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Yes. A fact the prosecution brought out.

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And, according to the evidence developed
at the trial, he was said to have

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hypnotized his victims before
dispatching them.

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Really quite humane of him, I think.

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His eyes are extraordinarily lifelike.

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Well, In a wax figure, the eyes are of

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the utmost importance.

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There.

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As you can see, Mr. Hewson, this eye is
definitely blue.

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But you have no idea how difficult it is
to get the exact shade of blue.

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Yes, we take a great deal of trouble
with the eyes.

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Look, Mr. Mariner, I don't seem to be
able to get through to you. I've got to

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write this article for the last time,
please.

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May I spend the night with Bourdette and
the others?

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I shall have to think about it.

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It's eight o 'clock. We're closed.

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On the house.

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Oh, the right of father.

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Good luck, sir.

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Thank you.

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Harry's been with us for over 50 years.

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Before we had the fire in 1925.

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Oh, that reminds me, sir. Mr. Mariner
said be sure no smoking.

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The wax, you know.

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It's cool me enough down here.

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Just right for these beauties.

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I guess I'll find all the information I
need in this guide.

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Well, if there's anything special you
want to know, I'd be glad to tell you.

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Ah, here's an interesting chap.

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Jack Shepard, in the cell at Newgate
Prison from Wednesday, Maylis at Day.

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Good evening, Mr. Hewson.

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I trust that everything is to your
liking, and I hope that you will be

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comfortable locked in here with my
little creatures.

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Locked in?

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What do you mean?

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Who said anything about being locked?

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But, my dear Houston, you could hardly
expect me to leave these valuable

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creatures of mine unlocked. Well, of
course I'll be here.

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But I'm afraid that they... I know it
sounds silly, but I have a kind of a

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feeling about being closed in.

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See, once when I was... Clostrophobia?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I... Something like that, I guess.

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The morbid fear of being in confined
places.

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That's too bad.

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Well, I suppose we'd best forget the
whole thing.

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No, no, no. No, I can't do that.

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All right.

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I'll stay.

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Locked in.

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Locked in.

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Good night, Mr. Hewson.

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used in medieval times as a judicial
instrument for the extraction of

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from unwilling witnesses.

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It was also employed as a form of trial
to determine guilt or innocence.

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57. Petit O. Marcel.

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Guillotine in Paris, 20th of May, 1946.

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Morrison. Armstrong.

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Seddon.

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Bourdette.

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Of course. You're the new Bourdette. You
only arrived just yesterday.

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of poor debt appears to be moving
menacingly toward me.

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I cannot move or speak without my
bidding.

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But you can hear me perfectly well.

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Something tells me that you are, shall
we say, nervous.

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My dear sir, have no illusions.

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I am not one of these contemptible
effigies. I am the barber.

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Burdette himself.

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They did not execute me this morning.

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I escaped.

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I was walking past this building.

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when I saw a policeman eyeing me with
curiosity.

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And I did not know whether he would
recognize me or not.

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So I decided to mingle with the crowd in
here.

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And once inside, I realized I had an
ideal means of escape.

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As you may understand, this has been a
tiring evening.

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But fortunately, your attention was
drawn anywhere.

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And you were not looking at me until I
could occasionally draw a breath and

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my pose.

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And now I'm looking at your throat.

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You have a skinny neck, sir.

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If you'll forgive a personal remark.

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This is a little French razor.

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They're not much use in England.

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Once dropped them on wood.

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The blade, you notice, is very narrow.

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It doesn't cut very deep, but deep
enough.

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And now I must ask you the usual
question all the barbers ask.

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Would you please lift

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your chin a little?

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A little more.

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gates at six o 'clock this morning like
you told me to there he was sitting in

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that chair

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he's

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dead all right what do you suppose
caused him to be sitting like that you

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as if Awaiting the attention of a
barber.

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Well, yes, he looks like he was waiting
to be shaved.

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The figure of Godet appeared to be
moving menacingly toward me.

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Power of imagination, amazingly strong.

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I'm afraid we must...

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Credit another victim to Bourdette.

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Bourdette, sir?

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Bourdette and an overactive imagination.

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But it couldn't have been Bourdette,
sir. He ain't never been here.

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Well, you know as well as I do, he was
on the Ange yesterday, sir.

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Well, look for yourself, sir. They're
just bringing him down now.

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so much for our museum memories.

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In the earlier part of this program, I
referred to the commercial as the 20th

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century rack.

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Unfortunately, our sensitive sponsor
mistakenly interpreted this as a veiled

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insult. I certainly want to apologize.

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Furthermore, I'm going to turn over a
new leaf.

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There. I feel much better.

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Now, ladies and gentlemen, before I
return,

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a moment ago I apologized

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for comparing the rack and the
commercial, but I neglected to mention

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was apologizing.

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I think I shall leave it that way.

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As for this charming device, it is being
returned to the athletic department of

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Arcadia University.

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I especially wish to thank the Arcadia
basketball coach Stretch Mulligan for

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his generosity.

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Good night.

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