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I'm home at last How long were you asleep	A
I startled you The time It's midnight past	B
Put on your slippers and your robe my dear	C
And make some coffee for me what a night	D
Yes tell you I shall tell you everything	E
I must tell someone and a wife should know	F
The workings of a governor's mind no one	G
Could guess what turned the scale to save this man	H
Who would have died to morrow but for me	I
That's fine This coffee helps me As I said	J
This night has been a trial Well you know	F
I told these lawyers they could come at eight	K
And so they came A seasoned lawyer one	G
The other young and radical both full	L
Of sentiment of some sort And there you sit	M
And do not say a word of disapproval	N
You smile which means you sun yourself within	O
The power I have and yet do you approve	P
This man committed brutal murder did	Q
A nameless horror now he's saved from death	R
The father and the mother of the girl	S
The neighborhood perhaps in which she lived	T
Will roar against me think that I was bought	U
Or used by someone I'm indebted to	V
In politics Oh no It's really funny	I
Since it is simpler than such things as these	W
And no one saving you shall know the secret	X
For there I sat and didn't say a word	Y
To indicate betray my thought not when	Z
The thing came out that moved me Let them read	J
The doctor's affidavits that this man	H
Was crazy when he killed the girl and read	J
The transcript of the evidence on the trial	N
They read and talked At last the younger lawyer	A2
For sometime still kept silent by the other	A2
Pops out with something reads an affidavit	X
As foreign to the matter as a story	I
Of melodrama color on the screen	B2
Which still contained a sentence that went home	C2
I felt my mind turn like a turn table	N
And click as when the switchman kicks the tongue	D2
Of steel into the slot that holds the table	N
And from my mind the engine that's the problem	E2
Puffed puffed and moved away out on the track	F2
And disappeared upon its business How	G2
Is that for metaphor Your coffee dear	C
Stirs up my fancy But to tell the rest	H2
If my face changed expression or my eye	I2
Betrayed my thought then I have no control	J2
Of outward seeming For they argued on	K2
An hour or so thereafter And I asked	L2
Re reading of the transcript where this man	H
Told of his maniac passion of the night	D
He killed the girl the doctors' testimony	I
I had re read and let these lawyers think	M2
My interest centered there and my decision	G
Was based upon such matters and at last	B
The penalty commuted When in truth	N2
I tell you I had let the fellow hang	O2
For all of this except that I took fire	A2
Because of something in this affidavit	X
Irrelevant to the issue reaching me	I
In something only relevant to me	I
O well all life is such Our great decisions	P2
Flame out of sparks where roaring fires before	Q2
Not touching our combustibles wholly failed	R2
To flame or light us	S2
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Now the secret hear	T2
Do you remember all the books I read	J
Two years ago upon heredity	I
Foot notes to evolution the dynamics	U2
Of living matter Well it wasn't that	V2
That made me save this fellow There you smile	W2
For knowing how and when I got these books	X2
Who woke my interest in them Never mind	Y2
You don't know yet my reasons	P2
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But I'll tell you	V
And let you see a governor's mind at work	Z2
When this young lawyer in this affidavit	X
Read to a certain place my mind strayed off	A3
And lived a time past you were present too	V
It was that morning when I passed my crisis	S2
Had just dodged death could scarcely speak too weak	B3
To lift a hand to feed myself but needed	C3
Vital replenishment of strength and then	Z
I got it in a bowl of oyster soup	D3
Rich cream at that And as I live my dear	C
As this young lawyer read I felt myself	E3
In bed as I lay then re lived the weakness	S2
Could see the spoon that carried to my mouth	F3
The appetizing soup imagined there	G3
The feelings I had then of getting fingers	H3
Upon the rail of life again how faint	I3
But with such clear degrees Could see the hand	J3
That held the spoon the eyes that looked at me	I
In triumph for the victory of my strength	K3
Which battled almost lost the prize of life	L3
It all came over me when this lawyer read	J
Elenor Murray lately come from France	M3
Found dead beside the river was the cousin	G
Of this Fred Taylor and had planned to come	E2
To see the governor death prevented her	A2
Suppose it had	N3
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That affidavit doubtless	S2
Was read to me to move me for the fact	O3
This man was kindred to a woman who	V
Served in the war this lawyer was that cheap	A
And isn't it as cheap to think that I	I2
Could be persuaded by the circumstance	M3
That Elenor Murray she who nursed me once	P3
Was cousin to this fellow if this lawyer	A2
Knew this and did he know it I don't know	F
Had Elenor Murray lived she would have come	E2
To ask her cousin's life I know her heart	Q3
And at the last I think this was the thing	E
I thought I'd do exactly what I'd do	V
If she had lived and asked me disregard	R3
Her death and act as if she lived repay	S3
Her dead hands which in life had saved my life	L3
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Now dear your eyes have tears I know believe me	I
I had no romance with this Elenor Murray	I
Good Lord it's one o'clock I must to bed	J
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You get my story Merival Do you think	M2
A softness in the heart went to the brain	T3
And softened that Well now I stress two things	U3
I can't endure defeat nor bear to see	I
An ardent spirit thwarted What I've achieved	V3
Has been through will that would not bend and so	F
To see that in another wins my love	W3
And my support Now take this Elenor Murray	I
She had a will like mine she worked her way	S3
As I have done And just to hear that she	I
Had planned to see me ask for clemency	I
For this condemned degenerate made me say	S3
Shall I let death defeat her Take the breach	X3
And make her death no matter in my course	Y3
For as I live if she had come to me	I
I had done that I did And why was that	V2
No romance Never that Yet human love	W3
As friend can keep for friend in this our life	L3
I felt for Elenor Murray and for this	Z3
It was her will that would not take defeat	A4
Devotion to her work and in my case	B4
This depth of friendship welling in her heart	Q3
For human beings that I shared in there	G3
Gave tireless healing to her nursing hands	C4
And saved my life And for a life a life	L3
This criminal will live some years we'll say	S3
Were better dead All right He'll cost the state	K
Say twenty thousand dollars What is that	V2
Contrasted with the cost to me if I	I2
Had let him hang There is a bank account	D4
Economies in the realm of thought to watch	E4
And don't you think the souls let's call them souls	F4
Of these avenging law abiding folk	G4
These souls of the community all in all	H4
Will be improved for hearing that I did	Q
A human thing and profit more therefrom	I
Than though that sense of balance in their souls	F4
Struck for the thought of crime avenged the law	I4
Fulfilled and vindicated Yes it's true	V
And Merival spoke up and said It's true	V
I understand your story and I'm glad	N3
It's like you and I'll tell my jury first	J4
And they will scatter it what moved in you	V
And how this Elenor Murray saved a life	L3
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The talk of waste in human life was constant	K4
As Coroner Merival took evidence	P3
At Elenor Murray's inquest Everyone	G
Could think of waste in some one's life as well	L4
As in his own	M4
John Scofield knew the girl	S
Had worked for Arthur Fouche her grandfather	A2
And knew what course his life took how his fortune	G
Was wasted dwindled down	N4
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Remembering	E
A talk he heard between this Elenor Murray	I
And Arthur Fouche her grandfather he spoke	G4
To Coroner Merival on the street one day	S3

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