The Ox-Bow Incident
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You know I can't read.
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I'll read it to you.
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"My dear wife:
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Mr. Davies will tell you
what's happening here.

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He's a good man and
has done everything he can for me.

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There are some other good men too,
only they don't realize what they're doing.

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They're the ones I feel sorry for,
because it'll be over for me. . .

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. . .but they'll have to go on remembering
for the rest of their lives.

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A man just can't take the law into his
own hands and hang people. . .

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. . .without hurting
everybody in the world. . .

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. . .because then he's not just
breaking one law, but all laws.

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Law is a lot more than words
you put in a book. . .

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. . .or judges or lawyers or sheriffs
you hire to carry it out.

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It's everything people ever have
found out about justice. . .

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. . .and what's right and wrong.
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It's the very conscience of humanity.
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There can't be any
such thing as civilization. . .

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. . .unless people have a conscience. . .
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. . .because if people
touch God anywhere. . .

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. . .where is it except
through their conscience?

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And what is anybody's conscience. . .
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. . .except a little piece of the conscience
of all men that ever lived?

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I guess that's all
I've got to say, except. . .

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. . .kiss the babies for me,
and God bless you.

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Your husband, Donald. "

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