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Part one. The Two Dead Girls
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Part Two. The Mouse on the Mile
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Part Three. Coffey’s Hands
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Part Four. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
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Part five. Night Journey
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Part six. Coffey on the Mile
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This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain[1]. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.
The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can’t be gotten away from. They called it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy. They made cracks about the power bill, and how Warden Moores[2] would cook his Thanksgiving dinner that fall, with his wife, Melinda, too sick to cook.
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I think you know I didn’t find all that out during one hot October afternoon in the soon-to-be-defunct prison library, from one set of old newspapers stacked in a pair of Pomona orange crates, but I learned enough to make it hard for me to sleep that night. When my wife got up at two in the morning and found me sitting in the kitchen, drinking buttermilk and smoking home-rolled Bugler, she asked me what was wrong and I lied to her for one of the few times in the long course of our marriage. I said I’d had another run-in with Percy Wetmore. I had, of course, but that wasn’t the reason she’d found me sitting up late. I was usually able to leave Percy at the office.
“Well, forget that rotten apple and come on back to bed,” she said. “I’ve got something that’ll help you sleep, and you can have all you want.”
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