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Description

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“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

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What should they try for

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“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest
possible prices”

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Work

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“it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”

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Kept what

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“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough
luck.”

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5
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He would have done what

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“I’d have let her stay”

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Threatened

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“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I
threatened to make a row”

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Hellish

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“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the
hellish thing.”

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Liked

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“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty
and a good sport-”

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Treated as a kid

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“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In
a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as
she was.”

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Chap in trouble

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“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble-
that’s why.”

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Turned her away

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“Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned
her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my
child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn
you-”

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Our inspector

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“He was our police inspector all right”

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Helped to kill

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“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and
that’s what matters-”

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