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fives today. John is not ausual sort of man, although he has

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a very ordinary sort of name JohnSmith. What could be more ordinary than
that? But he is a mostunusual man who really take his blood group
for instance, his blood group,his group a be very rare. Indeed,

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as the doctor is pointing out tohim, only two percent of people
belong to a group. Baby Ministress, I know my group is very rare.
And this younger dies. She musthave a transfusion as soon as possible,
otherwise she will die. That willbe no doubt about that. But
surely I'm not the only person thatthis type of blood in the area,

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No doubt there are people. Don'tknow everyone's blood group of hand. Just
like that. We depend, asyou know, on blood donors. You're
the only registered donor in this area, but there must be someone else.
Believe me, mister Smith, thereisn't anyway giving it. Transfusion isn't anything
to worry. But there's nothing toit. I've given blood before. I
know that. Then you'll help us, you'll help the younger. I can't.

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I can't go through that again.I won't, you know right?
Why? Please, mister Smith?Can't done? My Markie isn't so terrible
as it is. But you saidyou don't know what you're asking. I
can't do it, mister Smith.Unless young Beryl Rogers receives a transfusion of
blood type an B blood, shewill must certainly die. There must be

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somebody else who can do it quitebe, can't me? I told you
why, missus Smith, You're theonly registered donor in the area. What
about outside the area? What aboutblood banks? You keep supplies of blood
under refrigeration these days, don't you? Our own local supplies of A B
blood from the blood bank are exhausted. To find supplies elsewhere and fly them
here would take too long. Thegirl would die. Hang it all,

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man, All I'm asking you todo is give a point of your blood.
That's all not your life. No, that's not what you're asking,
and you don't know what you're asking. I can't do it. I can't
very well, and then there's nothingmore I can do. I can't force
you. I'm afraid there is unfortunatelyno law which says that one must give

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blood. But I hope to Smiththat you'll be able to live with your
conscience after tonight, after this younggirl does, because you won't help,
then I hope you can face yourselfunderage day. It wouldn't be saving.
Don't you understand it wouldn't It wouldbe only postposing something which might It will
be ended now. This girl's lifehas already ended unless you can find someone

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else to help. I have theonly one, mister Smith. I told
you before, You're the only one, her only chance. If I'm her
only chance, she hasn't got one. He refuse to help her. Yes,
mister Smith, this is a freecountry. You have every right to

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say that. You must have avery good reason for letting a young girl
go to an untimely death like thisI have. Won't you tell me what
it is? You wouldn't believe me. Nobody believes me. A promise.
I listen with an open mind.You see, the girl's father is waiting
outside to hear your decision. I'llhave to tell him something, all right,

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I'll tell you. I'll tell youwhat's been making my life a nightmare
for the last three years. Ifirst registered as a bloodown on about three
and a half years ago. Asyou've saved, my group was the rarest
for around many dollars, but alsothere aren't so many people needing transfusions,

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so it was about five months orI was called on to help He was
a young man, jeddic Evans,I still remember his name. He'd been
badly cut up in a motor accident, they've told me from this hospital.
At about two in the morning,I came inut here and gave two kinds
of blood. It saved young Jedrek'slife, at least, that's what we

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all thought. But it didn't savehis life really. It only saved him
for a far more horrible death.Thirty days after I had given the blood
eye, I came in on tothe hospital to see how he is getting
on. By this time he wassitting up in bed, looking quite well
again. I was into it tosee the man who's lightly being saved by

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my blood, I suppose, butalso I felt I had to see him.
You see, doctor, my bloodwas flowing in his veins already,
I felt a strange sort of kinshipwith him. I sat on the chair
beside his bed, smiled at him, Well, how are you feeling?

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A fine? Fine? It's Ineed to think about it in it?
What well it that your bloody isnot flowing around my body but through my
brain and making me think and breatheyes, yes, he hey, it
is. I must confect I don'tfeel any different, different, different,

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different dimen. Come on, doye? Come on? This past nice
slid the marshes whatever the worst?Ho hell help, I'm thinking, Come
here up, m Jill. I'mcreeping. I see, I see.

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Are you all right? Oh?Good head? I'm telling what is what?
What's the matter? You're gonna glad? Papa? No, it's it's
nothing. I'll be right. Butthere was something, and I just cant

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kill him? Has he been speaking? Suddenly into my mind's eye that flashed
a picture that'd been frightening me realIt wasn't as if I had imagined myself
somewhere else or anything like that.I'd been completely aware that I was sitting
in the hospital ward, but inthe front of my consciousness it flashed a

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picture of young Gerrick Evans and agirl walking beside him. He suddenly stepped
into a quicksand, and as Iwatched, horrified, i'd seen him stuck
down into the glass. I didn'ttell him what i'd imagined. It's not

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the sort of thing you'd tell aconvalescent patient. But as soon as I
could, I made my excuses andleft. I tried to put the remembrance
up it from my mind, butthat night I couldn't sleep. The next
morning I made a phone call todid Experience. M h, hello,

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missus Evans speaking my name is animportant I wonder if you can tell me
has your son did got a girlfriend? My son's engaged to be married.
Please, this is very important.Could you tell me what is Fizza's name?
Is really crazy? It's very important. Well, I don't know what

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businesses can possibly be of yours,but her name is Jill. I'd somehow
known somewhere in the dark crisiss ofmy mind that that was the name she
was going to say, Jill,the name which I had to get it

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call out. In my vision,I was tumming, we're wrong that I
am. I I walked about likethat man in days. Was it possible
that the fact that my blood wasflowing in his veins had somehow giveven me
the ability to see intotadict future.It seemed too unbelievable to contemplate him.

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Finally, I decided to return tothe hospital and tell him the host tory
it might well be nothing but nonsense, that at least he should be warned,
I thought. I phoned to checkwhen i'd be allowed to see him.
What name was that again? Evans? Evans? He was in a
measure accident. Oh Evans. I'mafraid it will be no use coming to

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see him, sir. Why not? He was discharged from hospital two days
ago. I fled his home,of course, but his mother told me
that he'd gone away for a weekor so into the country to conqueress.
She must have been under suspicious ofme making our phone calls by this time,

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because she refused to tell me ifI could get in touch with him.
But looking back, it wouldn't havebeen anybody anywhere. At the time,
I told myself that I was behavingesthetically over nothing and tried to put
a whole thing from my mind.I succeeded, too, up to a
point, until a couple of dayslater I bought the evening paper as usual,

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and there it was staring me inthe face, a young man Evans,
who's down fare and quicksand not wufrom the village. You've been sided,
she answered, Still worthing was wisdomescaped her. So now you see,

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doctor, why I'm not going toget this young girl any of my
blood. My blood is evil.It brings about death in the most horrible
fashion and lestern letter. I knowabout it in advance. Moves in world

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M hm O. Dear, dear, poor John. Count Dracula down here
is getting quite restless. He wantsJohn to look into his future by giving

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him some of his blood in agood old fashioned way. Then you're quite
hurt about Heaven's sake. Why can'tyou leave me alone? You don't seem
to understand what you're asking. Itold you it's happened four times in the

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past, and each time I've livedunder a terrible shadow of doom and until
a person concerns and died. Butlook, if you believe what you say
to be true, then one cantake precautions Derek Evans, for instance,
he could have been prevented from goingaway into the country. The tragedy couldn't
have been avoided. I set backwith Rose Walnick, but at least in
her case, I was sure thatmy vision couldn't possibly come told what happened.

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Rose was a cripple. I gaveher blood to saved her life.
Then I saw her quite clearly inmy mind's eye. She was screaming for
help, and there was ice allaround her, and ice skating. The
more I thought about it, themore impossible it was. She couldn't even
walk little and skate. At last, I thought, the sequence is going
to be broken. I should befree. And what happened. She was

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in a crowded cinema with a caughtfire. She died third to death.
The film that was showing was calledWinter Wonderland, all about ice skating.

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Well, what are you going tosave my daughter's lifeful? Are you going
to let her die? I can'tdo it, mister Rogers. Maybe your
daughter better will live without my ass. That's quite impossible, and we only
have about fifteen minutes later. Ican't do it. You're a monster,
that's what you are. A monster. Now listen to me, mister Smith.
I promise you one thing. Ifyou don't help my little girl and

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she dies, I'll kill you.All right, Oh it's what's the use
You don't want to understand, eitherof you. I'll do it good that
I'm warning you. I won't besaving your daughter's life, mister Rogers,
would just be keeping her alive sothat you can die in a much more

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horrible passion. That's the respiration,normal, doctor, I don't worry up.
She's already getting some color in hercheeks. All right, let's removing
neil. Mister Smith, I can'tthank you enough enough, enough, enough

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enough enough, been enough spaking menow, missus chits what is it?

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It's never happened as creed. Thisperformer wasn't matter. It's the nurse's removing
the needle from her harbor. Isaw it. What did you see?
The man was standing with his backto me. I couldn't see his face,
but here's it. It was terrible. Fuck what what did you see?

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This man had his hands around herfoes. He was trying to get
happen. I haven't saved this poorgirl, doctor. She's trying to be
murdered. Well, how are youfeeling? I'm fine? Who you?

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Why helped you when you were verysick? Oh? Man? Who gave
me some blood? Aren't you?That's right? It's funny to think about
it, isn't it. You're bloodingI'm about inside me. It must be
nice blood, because I'm feeling muchbetter. I'm glad. How old are
you being? Sixteen? Nearly seventeen? When are you leaving the hospital?

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About a week? The doctor saidyou you will be careful, won't you?
You want a pretty girl? Careful? What what do you mean?
Nothing? Nothing? Just be careful? Way is this is? Doesn't come
to this time? Hello? Hello? Well are you going to have me

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in? Of course? Come in. I'm very very well and I'm coming
here. Thank you. Sit down. Tell me what you've been doing with

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yourself the last four months. Youwere very nice to me while I was
in hospital. Nonsense, it's youtold me that if ever I was in
trouble, if ever I needed anyhelp. There's nothing wrong with Well,
you met my father, didn't you? Yes? Yes I did. How
is it he's dead? He diedlast month. I'm sorry. I don't

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know what to do. That's whyI came to you. You see,
I'm not quite seventeen yet I neverhave a respectable place to stay. Well,
they're don't put me in a home. That's why I came to you.
You said, if ever I gota job, but I could pay
for my keeps. It doesn't costyou anything. Relative cold friends. My

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mother has been dead for years.I've tried to work out what I should
do, and you're the only personI could come. Won't you help me?
No? No, no, nono, don't cry? What's out?
Help? And I did you hearabout you quite a lot this last
four months. Keep an eye onyou. Maybe this time I can make

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sure that the visions didn't come toShe moved in. I had a big
house in the plenty of room.I've never married, never had a family,
and it was wonderful at first,just having someone to care about and

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someone who cared about me. Thoughthere was nothing else in it but that
I know what needle me saying.But that was nonsense. She was like
a daughter to me, the daughterI'd never had. That you broke my
home the start. I didn't askme. He was too cocky, too
confident, and he was evil.Uncle John, this is my not Please

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let meet you. I'm sure howyou don't we cannot drive. There's a
course for don't be too late backfor your board. I'm worrying, mister
Smith. I'll bring her back safeand stand. You just find me whisper.

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He's man right, he's showing mesome new down steps. I'm finding
yourself. You are didn't sleep then? Got well? Yeah, just analyst

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kiss. I ought to go in. He should be waiting up for me
like you, not about him,for he's not your father. Good to
me. We're not being good toyou. Well you meet your favor a
few days. Why what do youmean? Nothing wrong? We haven't all

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just with me? Get away?This guy Smith's telling you what to do
all the time, and what I'mbecoming and new to go out with?
What about it? I'm not goinganywhere with me. Get the better.
You'll not see this man again.Wait a minute, you don't hear me,
but I'm not coming here. Ibet to go, Mike, good
night. I'll see you tomorrow.No, you won't. I'll see that

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you have nothing else to do withthat. Now, then, what's the
meaning of this? I know likea respectable person that time. I love
what you're talking about. My dadthough like to look after me. I

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should have let her go. Shewasn't really my responsibility. But a Nadian
voice and science said that if Iallowed her to leave, this might was
going to strangle her. It hadalways been true before. I had to
make sure it didn't come true thistime I had to. I raced up
the stairs after I'm twelve, fromthe door for room. She had an

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open suitcase on the burdens, playingclothes into it. You can see what
I'm doing alone. You're not leaving, yes, I am. And you

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can't stop my car can't. I'llsee you do it. I tell you,
you, little camp, I'll seethat you don't get madered. I'll
say if you in spite of yourself. I don't know what came over me.

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I must have seized her by thefriend. I don't remember anymore.
So she was lying at my feet. She was dead. My vision had
come true again. She'd been murdered, just as I'd seen. And now

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I knew why. The figure wasback I'd seen been vaguely familiar. It's
been me I'd seen commit murder.All right, Sergeant, take him away.
I only hope the judge believes yourstory. Is smiff because I don't

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Will. Will Policeman can be verysuspicious at times, can't they. Anyway,
don't worry too much. We'll makeJohn Smith very foy down here.

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I'm sure he'll find that he hasa few blood brothers. In fact.

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