Well, this is the hardest part to believe; look, you can suspend me if you want to, but it’s the God’s honest truth. This man Tompkins came all the way down to where I was bending over the body at the foot of the stairs. I straightened up and covered him with my gun. It didn’t faze him in the least, he kept moving right on past me toward the street-door. Not quickly, either; as slowly as if he was just going out for a walk. He said, ‘It isn’t my time yet. You can’t do anything to me with that.’ (“Speak To Me Of Death”)

Well, this is the hardest part to believe; look, you can suspend me if you want to, but it’s the God’s honest truth. This man Tompkins came all the way down to where I was bending over the body at the foot of the stairs. I straightened up and covered him with my gun. It didn’t faze him in the least, he kept moving right on past me toward the street-door. Not quickly, either; as slowly as if he was just going out for a walk. He said, ‘It isn’t my time yet. You can’t do anything to me with that.’ (“Speak To Me Of Death”)

– Cornell Woolrich –

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

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