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God saw fit to bestow that day。
〃Do you have a name?〃 MeGee asked。
〃John Coffey;〃 he said in a thick and tear…clotted voice。 〃Coffey like the drink; only not spelled the same way。〃
McGee nodded; then pointed a thumb at the chest pocket of Coffey's jumper; which was bulging。 It looked to McGee like it might have been a gun … not that a man Coffey's size would need a gun to do some major damage; if he decided to go off。 〃What's that in there; John Coffey? Is that maybe a heater? A pistol?〃
〃Nosir;〃 Coffey said in his thick voice; and those strange eyes … welling tears and agonized on top; distant and weirdly serene underneath; as if the true John Coffey was somewhere else; looking out on some other landscape where murdered little girls were nothing to get all worked up about …never left Deputy McGee's。 〃That's just a little lunch I have。〃
〃Oh; now; a little lunch; is that right?〃 McGee asked; and Coffey nodded and said yessir with his eyes running and dear snot…runners hanging out of his nose。 〃And where did the likes of you get a little lunch; John Coffey?〃 Forcing himself to be calm; although he could smell the girls by then; and could see the flies lighting and sampling the places on them that were wet。 It was their hair that was the worst; he said later 。。。 and this wasn't in any newspaper story; it was considered too grisly for family reading。 No; this I got from the reporter who wrote the story; Mr。 Hammersmith。 I looked him up later on;