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“May I see Mr. Wilson?”
Howard Patterson rose to his feet. “Sure, but you’re wasting your time.”
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She ignored that. “Do you want to tell me what happened?”
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“I’m afraid there’s really nothing I can do to help you unless you help me, Mr. Wilson. I promised Father Ryan I would at least come and talk to you.”
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“Tell ya what, doll, you crawl inta my skin and I’ll crawl inta yours, and then you’n me’ll rap ’bout hate.”
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The two of them sat there in a long silence. Finally, Abraham Wilson said, “I killed the somabitch.”
“Why did you kill him?”
He shrugged. “The motha’ was comin’ at me with this great big butcher knife, and—”
“Don’t con me. Prisoners don’t walk around carrying butcher knives.”
Wilson’s face tightened and he said, “Get the fuck outa here, lady. I din’t sen’ for ya.” He rose to his feet. “An’ don’t come round heah botherin’ me no more, you heah? I’m a busy man.”
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“He’s a hard case,” Howard Patterson said. “When we can, we try rehabilitation instead of punishment, but Abraham Wilson’s too far gone. The only thing that will calm him down is the electric chair.”
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“I guess that’s possible.”
The answer startled her. “What do you mean, ‘that’s possible’? Are you saying a convict in here could get possession of a knife? A butcher knife?”
Howard Patterson shrugged. “Miss Parker, we have twelve hundred and forty convicts in this place, and some of them are men of great ingenuity. Come on. I’ll show you something.”
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“This is where we keep the prisoners’ box of goodies.” He walked over to a large box and lifted the lid.
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She looked up at Howard Patterson and said, “I want to see my client again.”
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