:56:05
Perhaps so great that one day it would prove
detrimental to his entire moral mission.
:56:12
Tom stopped.
:56:14
He almost began to shake when the threat
to his career as a writer dawned upon him.
:56:19
It didn't take him long to agree with himself
that the risk was too great to run.
:56:25
The danger Grace was to the town
she was also to him!
:56:29
Tom did not like it.
:56:31
And he was man enough
to take action to prevent it.
:56:38
Fortunately Tom was as conscientious
as regards his future profession as he was practical.
:56:44
He allowed sincerity and ideals
plenty of room in his life,
:56:48
without getting "sentimental" about it,
as he would put it.
:56:53
Throwing away a document that might be
of significance to Tom and with him future generation
of readers as the basis of a novel or indeed a trilogy,
:57:02
was not an act he was so stupid to commit,
:57:05
although he had to admit that in a moment
of weakness he might have said he would.
:57:13
Before returning to the meeting that night
Tom opened the little drawer he had open
the night of Grace's arrival,
:57:20
and found it still there:
:57:23
the card from the gangster in the car.
:57:46
[Narrator] The next day the sun was shining
in the brisk autumn sky,
:57:49
and the snow was long since gone.
:57:54
For the first time for ages the pile driver
could be heard in the marshlands
:57:58
as it hammered in the piles for what might
or what might not be a penitentiary.