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three fives the day. John isnot a usual sort of man, although

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he has a very ordinary sort ofname, John Smith. What could be
more ordinary than that? But heis a most unusual man who real here.
But take his blood group for instance, his blood group, his group

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a be very rare. Indeed,as the doctor is pointing out to him,
only two percent of people belong togroup. Baby. Mister Smith,
I know my group is very rare, and this young girl is dying.
She must have a transfusion as soonas possible, otherwise she will die.

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There will be no doubt about that. But surely I'm not the only person
with this type of blood in thearea, And no doubt there are the
people. We don't know everyone's bloodgroup off hand. Just like that.
We depend, as you know,on blood donors. You're the only registered
donor in this area, but theremust be some one else. Believe me,
mister Smith, there isn't anyway.Giving a transfusion isn't anything to worry.

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But there's nothing to it. I'vegiven blood before. I know that.
Then you'll help us, you'll helpthe young girl. I can't.
I can't go through that again.I won't. You've no right while please,
mister Smith, calm downe marking isn'tso terrible as it is but you
said you don't know what you're asking. I can't do it, mister Smith.
Unless young Beryl Rodgers receies a transfusionof blood type AN be blood,

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she will must certainly die. Theremust be somebody else you can do it.
Quite you can't me. I toldyou why, missus Smith, you're
the only registered donor in the well. Then what about outside the area?
What about blood banks? You keepsupplies of blood under refrigeration these days?
Don't you are our own local suppliesof A D blood from the blood bank.

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I'm exhausted to find supplies elsewhere andfly them here would take too long,
the girl would die. Hang itall, man, All I'm asking
you to do is give a pintof your blood. That's all what your
life though, that's not what you'reasking, and you don't know what you're
asking. I can't do it.I can't very well. And then there's

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nothing more I can do well.I can't force you. I'm afraid there
is unfortunately no law which says thatone must give blood. But I hope
as to Smith, that you'll beable to live with your conscience after tonight,
after this young girl dies, becauseyou won't help and I hope you
can face yourself in the marriage day. It wouldn't be saving, don't you

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understand it wouldn't It would be onlypostposing something which might have will be ended
now. This girl's life has alreadyended. Unless you can find someone else
to help, I'll be only one, mister Smith. I told you before,
you're the only one, her onlychance. And if I'm her only
chance, she hasn't got one herefuse to help her. Yes, mister

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Smith, this is a free country. You have every right to say that
you must have a very good reasonfor letting a young girl go to an
untimely death like this. I have. Won't you tell me what it is?
You wouldn't believe me. Nobody believesme. I promise I listen with
an open mind. You see,the girl's father is waiting outside to hear

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your decision. I'll have to tellhim something, all right, I'll tell
you. I'll tell you what's beenmaking my life a nightmare for the last
three years. I first registered someblood down on about three and a half
years ago. As you said,my group was the rarest, but around

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many donors, but also there aroundso many people needing transfusions. So it
was about five months before I wascalled on to help. He was a
young man, Jeddak Evans, Istill remember his name. He'd been badly
cut up in a motor accident.They've held me from this hospital. At

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about two in the morning, Icame aut here and gave two kinds of
blood. It saved young Jedik's lifeat least, let's what we all thought.
But it didn't save his life really. It only saved him for a
far more horrible death. Two orthree days after I had given the blood

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eye, I came along to thehospital to see how he is getting on.
By this time he was sitting upin bed, looking quite well.
Again. I was interested to seethe man who's lightly being saved by my
blood, I suppose, but alsoI felt I had to see him.
You see, doctor, my bloodwas furying in his veins already, I've

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felt a strange sort of kinship withhim, I said, on the chair
withde his bed. He smiled athim, Well, how are you feeling
fine? Fine? It's uh,I need to think about it inner.

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What well it that your blood isnow flowing around my body but through my
brain and making me think and breathe, yes, yes, he hey,
it is I must confess. Idon't feel any different, different different gods?

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Did dim come on? Do youcome on? This pass like solid?
The marshes well out of the worst? Ho? Ho? What hell?
Help? I'm thinking tak iman nearu s you you help? How

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long is it creep again? Isee, I'm seeing? Are you all
right? Oh? Good? Heavens? I tell what is what? What's

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the matter you? You've gone back? No, no, it's it's nothing.
I'll be right. But there wassomething, and I tell him.
As he had been speaking, suddenlyinto my mind's eye they'd flashed a picture
that had been frightening me. RealIt wasn't as if I had imagined myself

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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
picture of young Derek Evans and agirl walking beside him. He suddenly stepped
into a quicksand, and as Iwas horrified i'd seen him stuck down into

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the grass, I didn't tell himwhat I'd imagined. It's not the sort
of thing you'd tell a convalescent patient. And as soon as I could,
I made my excuses and left.I tried to put the remembrance up up
from my mind, but that nightI couldn't sleep. The next morning I

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made a phone call to get explained. Hello, missus Evans speaking my name
is an important I wonder if youcan kill me. Has your son did

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got a girlfriend? My son's engagedto be married? Please, this is
very important. Could you tell mewhat is Fiata's name is Praasy, it's
very important. Well, I don'tknow what businesses can possibly be of yours,
but her name is Jill. I'dsomehow known, somewhere in the dark

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crisiss of my mind that that wasthe name she was going to say,
Jill, the name which I've heardDerek call out. In my vision,
I was timing well than I am. I I walked about like that man
in days. Was it possible thatthe fact that my blood was flowing in

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his pains had somehow given me theability to see into Deadx's future. It
seemed too unbelievable to contemplate. FinalI decided to return to Baspital and tell
him the hostelry. It might wellbe nothing but nonsense, that at least
he should be warned, I thought. I fled to checkber he allowed to

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see him. What name was thatagain? Evans? Get Evans? He
was in a measure accident. Ohthat mister Evans. I'm afraid it will
be no use coming to see him, sir. Why not? He was
discharged from hospital two days ago.I filed his home, of course,

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but his mother told me that he'dgone away for a week or so into
the country to Countalesce. She musthave been a little suspicious of me making
our phone calls by this time,because she refused to tell me if I
could get in touch with him.But looking back, it wouldn't have been
any good anywhere. At the time, I told myself that I was behaving
esthetically over nothing and tried to puta whole into my mind. I succeeded,

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too, up to a point,until a couple of days later I
brought the evening paper as usual,and there it was, staring me in
the face. A young man Avanswho's down stay in a quickstand. Not

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would from the village. You've metside, as she answered, still working
with was with him, skept Sonow you see, doctor, why I'm
not going to give this young girl, any of my blood. My blood
is evil. It brings about deathin the most horrible fashion and wrests the

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Count Dracula down here is getting quiterestless. He wants John to look
into his future by giving him someof his blood in a good old fashioned
way. Then you're quite hurt ofheaven. Say why can't you leave me

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alone? You don't seem to understandwhat you're asking. I told you it's
happened four times in the past,and each time I've lived under a terrible
shadow of doom and until a personconcerns and died. But look, if
you believe what you say to betrue, then one can take precautions.
Derek Evans, for instance, hecould have been prevented from going away into
the country. The tragedy couldn't beenavoided. I set back with Rose Warwick,

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but at least in her case,I was sure that my vision couldn't
possibly come toll. What happened.Rose was a cripple. I gave her
blood, saved her life. ThenI saw her quite clearly in my mind's
eye. She was screaming for help, and there was ice all around her
and ice skating. The more Ithought about it, the more impossible it
was. She couldn't even walk littleand skate. And whilst I thought the

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sequence is going to be broken,I should be free. And what happened.
She was in a crowded cinema witha caught fire. She died don't
to death, and the film thatwas showing was called Winter Wonderland, all
about ice skating. Well, whatare you going to save my daughter's sliful?

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Are you going to let her die? I can't do it, mister
Rogers. Maybe your daughter better willlive without my ass. That's quite impossible,
and we only have about fifteen minutes. Letter down I can't do it.
You're a monster, that's what youare. A monster. Now listen
to me, mister Smith. Ipromise you one thing. If you don't
help my little girl and she dies, I'll kill you, all right,

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all right? What's the use youdon't want to understand, either of you.
I'll do it good that I'm warningyou. I won't be saving your
doors life, mister Rogers. I'lljust be keeping her alive so that she
can die in a much more horriblepassion. How's her respiration? Normal?

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Doctor, I'm hi. Don't worryabout she's already getting some color in her
cheeks. All right, let's removethe needle. Mister Smith. I can't
thank you enough enough enough be nabeen n be enough me. No,

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no, missus Smiths. What isit? It's never happened his creet this
before, Muscat. It's a nurse'sremoving the needle from her harbor. I
saw it. What did you see? The man was tending with his back
to me. I couldn't see hisface, but hers it It was terrible.

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Fuck. What what did you see? This man had his hands around
her furs. He was strangling ather. I haven't saved this poor girl,
doctor, she's trying to be murdered. Well, how are you feeling?

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I'm saying, who you? Why? Helped you when you were these?
Oh you're the man who gave mesome blood, aren't you? That's
right? It's funny to think aboutit, isn't it. You're blood being
humped about inside me. It mustbe nice blood, because I'm feeling much
better. I'm dead. How oldare you being? Sixteen? Nearly seventy?

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When are you leaving the hospital?About a week. The doctor said
you you will be careful, won'tyou. You're such a pretty girl.
Careful? What what do you mean? Nothing? Nothing? Just be careful,
prayers. This is nothing up tothis time. Hello, hello,

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Hello, Well, of course,come in. I'm very very well and
I'm coming here. Thank you.Sit down, Hey, Kelly, what

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you've been doing with yourself the lastfour months? You were very nice to
me while I was in hospital.Nonsense, it's he told me that if
ever I was in trouble, ifever I needed any help. There's nothing
wrong with Well, you met myfather, didn't you? Yes? Yes
I did. How is it he'sdead? He died last month. I'm

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sorry. I don't know what todo That's why I came to you.
You see, I'm not quite seventeenyet. Unless I have a respectable place
to stay, well, they don'tput me in a home. That's why
I came to you, he said, if ever I got a job,
but I could pay for my kid, do anything. I haven't got me

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relative of friends. My mother hasbeen dead for years. I tried to
work out what I should do,and you're the only person I could come.
Won't you help me? No,no, no, no, no,
don't cry. Of course I'll helpyou. I think you hear about
you quite a lot this last threeor four months. Keep an eye on

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you. Maybe there's time I canmake sure that the visions didn't come true.
She moved in. I had abig housand, there's plenty of room.
I've never married and never had afamily, and it was wonderful at

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first, just having someone to careabout and someone who cared about me.
There was nothing else in it,but that I know we will be saying
that there was nonsense. She waslike a daughter to me, the daughter
I've never had. And then shebrought my hause the start I didn't ask
to me. He was too cocky, too competent and he was evil.

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N John't this is n not placeto meet you. I'm sure how you
don't. We cannot drive. There'sa course from gonna be too late back
mboard way, mister Smith. I'llbring her back safe and stand. No.

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I think it's time you wipe morning. We got the he's man nice.
He's showing me some new dom,trying finding with her. You are
getting sleyah, just another little kiss. I ought to go in. You

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should be waiting up for me likeits not about him, for he's not
Your father's very good to me.We love being good to you. Why
don't you meet you away for afew days? Hooray? What do you
mean? Nothing wrong? We havea ball just with me. Get away
from this guy Smith telling you whatto do with the time and what time

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to come me and you'll go outwith what about it? Going anywhere with
you? Come on, get thebetter you want not to see this man
again? Wait a minute, youhave me better. I am not come
here. I better go, Mike. I'll see you tomorrow. Oh no,
you won't. I'll see that youhave nothing else to do with her?
Now, then what's the meaning ofthis? I like a respectable person.

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Time I learnt. What are youtalking about? My person? Michael
look after me. I should havelet her go. She wasn't really my
responsibility, but a Nazian voice andscience said that if I allowed her to

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leave, this MC was going tojust strangle her. It has always been
true before. I had to makesure it didn't come true this time I
had to. I raised up tosay it. After and twelve from the
door for role. She had anopen suitcase on the bed and throwing clothes
into it. What are you doing? You can see what I'm doing alone.

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You're not leaving, Yes, Iam, And you can't stop,
my cat. I'll see you doit. I'll tell you, you little
camera, I'll see that you don'tget married. I'll save you in spite
of yourself. You. I don'tknow what came over me. I must

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have seized him by the throat.I don't remember anymore. So she was
lying at my feet. She wasdead. My vision had come true again.
She'd been murdered, just as I'dseen, And now I knew why

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the figure was back I'd seen,being vaguely familiar. It had been me
I'd seen to make murder all right, sergeant take him away. I only
hope that Judge leaves your story,Smiff, because I don't ill Will Will.

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A policeman can be very suspicious attimes, can't they. Anyway,
don't worry too much. We'll makeJohn Smith very cozy down here. I'm
sure he'll find that he has afew blood brothers. In fact, Move

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