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"Told hi "Told everybody Ain’t gonna say it noyou have to, Anthony I know you’re sorry That’s why I ca way, Anthony" Wolgast nodded slowly "A very, very long way"

Wolgast paused, searching Carter’s face There was so about hi, like a door

"Anthony, ould you say if I told you I could get you out of this place?"

Behind the glass, Carter eyed hiht now Today You could leave Terrell and never come back"

Carter’s eyes floated with incomprehension; the idea was toowith me"

"No lie, Anthony That’s e came all this way You may not know it, but you’re a special man You could say you’re one of a kind"

"You talk abouthere?" Carter frowned bitterly "Ain’t ot no appeal Lawyer said so in a letter"

"Not an appeal, Anthony Better than that Just you, getting out of here How does that sound to you?"

"It sound great" Carter sat back and crossed his arood to be true This Terrell"

It always a the idea of coht now, Carter was in denial The idea was just too much to take in

"I knohere you are I know this place It’s the death house, Anthony It’s not the place where you belong That’s why I’m here And not for just anyone Not these other men For you, Anthony"

Carter’s posture relaxed "I ain’t nobody special I knows that"

"But you are You may not know it, but you are You see, I need a favor froet you out of here, but there’s so I need for you to do for me in return"

"A favor?"

"The people I work for, Anthony, they saas going to happen to you in here They knohat’s going to happen in June, and they don’t think it’s right They don’t think it’s right the way you’ve been treated, that your lawyer has up and left you here like this And they realized they could do so about it, and that they had a job they needed you to do instead"

Carter frowned in confusion "Cuttin’, you ht He actually thought he wanted hi ain "You see, that’s the thing What I need you to do is so important, I can’t tell you what it is Because I don’t even know myself"

"How you know it’s so important you don’t knohat it is?"

"You’re a sht to ask that But you’re going to have to trust ht now All you have to do is say you want to"

That hen Wolgast pulled the warden’s envelope froician at thishis hat to show a rabbit With his free hand, he flattened the doculass for Carter to see

"Do you knohat this is? This is a writ of coned by Governor Jenna Bush It’s dated today, right there at the bottom You knohat thatat the paper "I don’t go to the needle?"