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not, he said, remember telling the bartender he could 'read about the rest of it in the
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上海龙凤shlf最新地址but not the dishtowels. 'Why would I want dishtowels?' he asked, and one of the papers
reported that three of the lady jurors shuddered.
上海龙凤shlf最新地址Later, much later, he speculated to me about the clerk who had testified on the subject of
上海龙凤shlf最新地址those dishtoweis, and I think it'i worth jotting down what he said. 'Suppose that, during
上海龙凤shlf最新地址their chmvmhn fur witnesses,' Andy said one day in the xwulio yard, 'they stumble on
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the case have been broadsided in all the papers. Maybe they ganged up on the guy, five or
上海龙凤shlf最新地址six cops, plus the dick from the attorney general's office, plus the DA's assistant. Memory
上海龙凤shlf最新地址is a pretty subjective thing, Red. They could have started out with "Isn't it possible that he
purchased four or five dishtowels?" and worked their way up from there. If enough
people want you to remember something, that can be a pretty powerful persuader.'
上海龙凤shlf最新地址I agreed that it could.
'But there's one even more powerful,' Andy went on in that musing way of his. 'I think it's
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上海龙凤shlf最新地址questions, his picture in the papers ... all topped, of course, by his star turn in court. I'm
not saying that he deliberately falsified his story, or perjured himself. I think it's possible
上海龙凤shlf最新地址that lie could have passed a lie detector test with flying colours, or sworn on his mother's
sacred name that I bought those dishtowels. But still ... memory is such a goddam
subjective thing.
'I know this much: even though my own lawyer thought I had to be lying about half my
上海龙凤shlf最新地址story, he never bought that business about the dishtowels. It's crazy on the face of it. I
was pig-drunk, too drunk to have been thinking about muffling the gunshots. If I'd done
it, I just would have let them rip.'
上海龙凤shlf最新地址He went up to the turnout and parked there. He drank beer and smoked cigarettes. He
上海龙凤shlf最新地址watched the lights downstairs in Quentin's place go out. He watched a single light go on
upstairs ... and fifteen minutes later he watched that one go out. He said he could guess
the rest.
上海龙凤shlf最新地址'Mr Dufresne, did you then go up to Glenn Quentin's house and kill the two of them?' his
上海龙凤shlf最新地址lawyer thundered.
'No, I did not,' Andy answered. By midnight, he said, he was sobering up. He was also
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about the whole thing in a more adult fashion the next day. 'At that time, as I drove home,
I was beginning to think that the wisest course would be to simply let her go to Reno and
get her divorce.'
'Thank you, Mr Dufresne.'
上海龙凤shlf最新地址The DA popped up.
'You divorced her in the quickest way you could think of, didn't you? You divorced her
with a .38 revolver wrapped in dishtowels, didn't you?'
上海龙凤shlf最新地址'No sir, I did not,' Andy said calmly.
'And then you shot her lover.'
上海龙凤shlf最新地址'No, sir.'