In those few moments, he anticipated the hideous fate he had meted out to so many.
7 seconds sound clip from the Fugue in C Minor (Suspense) classic radio play.
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- May first, 1900. I shall be coming home in a few days, Bessie.
- I still can't sleep at night. I still hear that laughter.
- Still hear that cornet playing its unearthly music.
- And Theodore Evans once more lies dead at my feet.
- 'Twas his heart. He died of fright.
- In those few moments, he anticipated the hideous fate he had meted out to so many.
- Those terrible, pathetic children. What horrors they must have sensed in that charnel house.
- I was in that pipe room alone with him for four hours before that door creaked open.
- Here they stood. And I shall never forget their faces or the things they said.
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