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Je n'arrive pas a trouver une suite sur le texte "wireless" d'Agatha Christie,
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Mrs Mary Harter, a rich widow, she lives in a big house with her nephew, Charles. He hasc convinced her to buy a wirelesstk to keep her company.It was about three months after the wireless had been installed that the first eerie thingh happened Charles was absent for a bridge party.The programme for that evening was a ballad concert. A well-known soprano was singing“Annie Laurie”, and in the middle of “Annie Laurie” a strange thing happened. There was a sudden break, the music ceased for a moment, the buzzing, clicking noise continued and then that too dieda away There was dead silence, and then very faintly a low buzzing sound was heard. MrsHarter got the impression that the machine was tuned in to somewhere very far away, and then clearly and distinctly a voice spoke, a man’s voice with a faint Irish accent. "Mary – can you hear me, Mary? It is Patrick speaking… I am coming for you soon. You will be readywon’t you, Mary?” Then almost immediately, the strains of “Annie Laurie” once more filled the room. MMrsHarter sat rigid in her chair, her hands clenched on each arm in it. Had she been dreaming? Patrick Patrick’s voice! Patrick’s voice, in this very room, speaking to her. No, it must be a dream, a allucination perhaps. She must just have dropped off to sleep for a minute or two.A curious thing to have dreamed – that her dead husband’s voice should speak to her over theether. It frightened her just a little. What were the words he had said?“ I am coming for you soon, Mary. You will be ready, won’t you?”, Wasit could it be a premonition? Cardiac weakness. Her heart. After all, she was getting on in years“ It’s a warning – that’s what it is”, said Mrs Harter, rising slowly and painfully from her chair. Shesaid nothing of her experience to anyone, but for the next day or two she was thoughtful and a leattel preoccupied
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And then came the second occasion. Again she was alone in the room. The wireless, which had
been playing an orchestral selection, died away with the same suddenness as before. Again there
was silence, the sense of distance, and finally Patrick’s voice, not as it had been in life – but a voice
rarefied, far away, with a strange unearthly quality. “Patrick speaking to you, Mary. I will be
coming for you very soon now…”
Then click, buzz, and the orchestral selection was in full swing again7
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Mrs Hater glanced at the clock. No, she had not been asleep this time. Awake and in full
possession of her faculties, she had heard Patrick’s voice speaking.
Agatha CHRISTIE, Wireless (1925), in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (1933)
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