The Ten Years
Suspense · June 2, 1949 · 26 min · 3,216 words
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Suspen! The Knight transcribed, Auto-Life brings you Miss Joan Crawford in... the ten years. A suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. And now, Auto-Life presents Joan Crawford in a tale well-calculated to keep you in...
Suspen! Everyone is so good to me. I like being here. But some of the others don't, I guess. Do you hear? They scream sometimes like that in the night. Maybe they scream because they remember things.
But I remember things too, especially when people come out from town to see me, to bring new things. But there's nothing, nothing that I want. They can't bring back my sister. My beautiful sister Adele.
They came today. And with them they brought back memories of Adele. When we were children. The night that Mother died. The night we made the promise. Poor Adele. I think it's going to happen to me.
I'm going to take care of you. But that's what Mother said. Now she left us too. Good Adele. Mother didn't know that she... She wouldn't have left it if she could have helped. Promise me you won't die, Claire.
Whatever I do, you'll do. And that you'll never leave me. I promise. And we'll be together. Always and forever. Always and forever. I promise. Here's I kept that promise. Adele and I were as close as anyone could be.
We had few friends, but I didn't mind as long as she was happy. But sometimes I was frightened that the way she clung to me after we were grown. I was afraid of what would happen to her in case anything ever happened to me.
And then something did happen. I met Douglas Foley. Adele liked him until she realized that I'd fallen in love with him. Then she hated him in a childish, vicious way. He tried to win her over, but it was no good.
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