The Brown Paper Bag
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His eyes sprung into expressive lights, and his face appeared almost free of pain as he spoke with bold voice and heart in the relieved trust he seemingly felt in Susan. He reached out, squeezing her hand ingratiatingly. “Susan, please keep my bag until I leave the hospital,” he requested. “Of course I’ll take care of it; the hospital safe will be a good place for it,” Susan assured him. “No! No!” he yelled out loud. “You must take it home with you and keep it safe from my wife. You can never tell a soul that you have it. Please do this for me,” he said imploringly.
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Susan Turner, a young divorced black Registered Nurse, who is struggling to support a chronically ill four year old son, is given a brown grocery bag for safe keeping by an elderly poatient who instructs her to tell no one that she has the bag, and if he should never call for it, the contents are hers to keep. Upon returning to work the next morning, she learrns that the patient has died during the night of suspicious circumstances, and she is accused of murder.