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Well, that's really
quite incredible.

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I gave him four weeks

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possibly, to hold out,
six at the outside.

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Nine weeks!

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There's a little bit
more gristle there

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than I gave him credit for.

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Will there be
anything else, sir?

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Oh, hello, Alfred.

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Franklin told me
you were waiting.

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Only to pose this
question to you.

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Very succinct,
Archie, very brief.

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How long?

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How long what?

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How long are you
going to keep on

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with this... this
prolonged practical joke?

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Well, not much longer.

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Thank you, Franklin.

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You should see
our boy down there.

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Four and a half months,
not a sound out of him.

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It's incredible.

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That fop won't take it
for another month.

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This I'll guarantee you.

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For your sake,
I hope that's the case.

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My sake?

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You have the money, Archie?

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I find that insulting, Alfred.

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I'm sorry if it is.

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I think he's going
to beat you, Archie.

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I think that boy down there

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is going to remain silent
for the entire year.

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And I think you're
going to owe him $500,000.

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I just hope you've got it.

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You can hear me,
Tennyson, can't you?

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I've been giving this
considerable thought.

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You fulfilled your part
of the bargain admirably.

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As a matter of fact

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you have completely
surprised me, Tennyson.

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But the fact is

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I feel the whole thing
has gone too far.

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It's becoming inhuman.

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I'm prepared to offer you
a thousand dollars

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and you may walk out today

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right this moment,
if you choose.

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It's going to be an early spring
this year, Tennyson.

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You ought to see it.

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In that time of the year

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when a young man's
fancy lightly turns...

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well, you know that
better than I do.

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And young ladies, too.

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For example

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your wife.

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She must be lonely
for you, Tennyson

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desperately lonely.

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As a matter of fact,
she...

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she has been seen
with other young men.

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It's odd

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she hasn't paid you a visit,
isn't it?

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Don't you think it's odd?

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I happen to know
you've written her many notes

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requesting a visit.

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She hasn't responded,
even to the notes.

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You may lose your wife, Tennyson.

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I hope you're fully
aware of that.

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While you stay here behind glass

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the very reason
for all your agony

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may be slipping away from you.

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Why don't you leave, Tennyson?

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Why don't you leave right now?

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It still might be possible
to save your marriage.

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Tennyson, I saw your wife again.

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She was getting into
a little european sports car.

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There was a, you know,
a nice young fellow driving it.

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Your wife... wife... your
wife... wife... wife... wife.

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Today is april fools' day,
Tennyson.

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You remember april fools' day.

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I think it was named for you

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for only a fool would stay
in there as long as you have

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knowing precisely what's
happening on the outside.

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Your wife, I mean, Tennyson,
your wife... wife... wife.

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Tennyson, this nonsense
must cease!

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You've got
to get out of there.

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You really do.

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Why I could tell you some
stories about your wife.

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How about it, Tennyson?

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I might see my way clear
to giving you $5,000.

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That would pay off
a lot of your debts.

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And a little bracelet
for your wife.

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Something to compensate
for the months of loneliness.

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How about it, Tennyson?

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$5,000.

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$6,000, Tennyson.

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You're an idiot, you
know that, Tennyson?!

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You're going out of
your mind in there.

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I know you are.

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You're ready to crawl up
the walls.

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Listen, Tennyson, you cannot
stay in there one more hour.

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Not another half hour.

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I wouldn't have believed it.

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A year in that room

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and not one word out of him.

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Two minutes is all
the poor devil has got now-

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two more minutes.

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Look at Archie.

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Not the face of a happy man, 
would you say?

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A rather monumental occasion,
isn't it, Archie?

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12 months ago to the moment
you destroyed yourself

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much as I told you you would.

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Your little reminders
are gratuitous, Alfred.

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Besides, it's not yet 10:00.

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Whether it is
or whether it isn't

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the destruction
i'm talking about

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has already taken place.

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There have been
ugly rumors, Archie

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things you've done to him

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like little asides, innuendos

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suggestions, gossip about his wife.

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You place such a premium
on honor, Archie

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but you haven't acted
like an honorable man.

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Please don't go to the
trouble of denying it.

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I'm sure much of it is true.

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But the ugly affair
has proved two things

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hasn't it, Archie?

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That that boy down
there is stronger

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than you gave him credit for

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and you are
considerably weaker.

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How could he have done it?

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How could he have done it?

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It's impossible!

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You, uh, have me at
a disadvantage, mr. Tennyson.

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In a rather
compromising situation.

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You force me into a position
of... rather distasteful candor.

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The truth is I am a fraud.

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I haven't any money.

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I offered you a thousand
dollars, then $5,000.

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I would have had to go out
into the street

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to beg even that amount, let
alone a half a million dollars.

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It's true that I have pride

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bearing, taste,
exceptional breeding...

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but I lost most of my money

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some years ago.

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Now you have forced me
to uncover the situation

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proving, mr. Tennyson,
proving that, of the two of us

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you are by far
the more substantial.

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And I will naturally resign.

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I will not ask you to suffer
my presence any longer.

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Tennyson, you can talk,
your time is up.

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You can talk, gurgle, sing,
chortle, anything you want.

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What's he writing?

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What is he doing? 

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Why doesn't he talk?

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What does it say, Archie?

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What did he write?

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Why didn't he say something?

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"I knew I would not
be able to keep

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"my part of the bargain...

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"so one year ago
I had the nerves

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to my vocal chords severed."

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Mr. Jamie Tennyson
who almost won a bet

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but who discovered
somewhat belatedly

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that gambling can be
a most unproductive pursuit

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even with loaded dice,
marked cards

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or, as in his case,
some severed vocal chords.

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For somewhere beyond him,
a wheel was turned

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and his number came up
"black 13."

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If you don't believe it,
ask the croupier

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the very special one
who handles roulette

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in the twilight zone.