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h; I think; but don't hold me to that。 That was the day I found the piece of paper I'd been dreading on the middle of my desk: the DOE on John Coffey。 Curtis Anderson had signed it instead of Hal Moores; but of course it was just as legal either way; and of course it had needed to go through Hal in order to get to me。 I could imagine Hal sitting at his desk in Administration with that piece of paper in his hand; sitting there and thinking of his wife; who had bee something of a nine days; wonder to the doctors at Indianola General Hospital。 She'd had her own DOE papers handed to her by those doctors; but John Coffey had tom them up。 Now; however; it was Coffey's turn to walk the Green Mile; and who among us could stop it? Who among us would stop it?
The date on the death warrant was November 20th。 Three days after I got it … the fifteenth; I think I had Janice call me in sick。 A cup of coffee later I was driving north in my badly sprung but otherwise reliable Ford。 Janice had kissed me on my way and wished me good luck; I'd thanked her but no longer had any clear idea what good luck would be … finding what I was looking for or not finding it。 All I knew for sure is that I didn't feel much like singing as I drove。 Not that day。
By three that afternoon I was well up in the ridge country。 I got to the Purdom County Courthouse just before it closed; looked at some records; then had a visit from the Sheriff; who had been informed by the county clerk that a stranger w