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And
Clyde
thereafter
--
lonely
--
terribly
so
.
Now
there
was
no
one
here
--
no
one
--
in
whom
he
was
interested
.
He
could
only
sit
and
read
--
and
think
--
or
pretend
to
be
interested
in
what
these
others
said
,
for
he
could
not
really
be
interested
in
what
they
said
.
His
was
a
mind
that
,
freed
from
the
miseries
that
had
now
befallen
him
,
was
naturally
more
drawn
to
romance
than
to
reality
.
Where
he
read
at
all
he
preferred
the
light
,
romantic
novel
that
pictured
some
such
world
as
he
would
have
liked
to
share
,
to
anything
that
even
approximated
the
hard
reality
of
the
world
without
,
let
alone
this
.
Now
what
was
going
to
become
of
him
eventually
?
So
alone
was
he
!
Only
letters
from
his
mother
,
brother
and
sisters
.
And
Asa
getting
no
better
,
and
his
mother
not
able
to
return
as
yet
--
things
were
so
difficult
there
in
Denver
.
She
was
seeking
a
religious
school
in
which
to
teach
somewhere
--
while
nursing
Asa
.
But
she
was
asking
the
Rev.
Duncan
McMillan
,
a
young
minister
whom
she
had
encountered
in
Syracuse
,
in
the
course
of
her
work
there
,
to
come
and
see
him
.
He
was
so
spiritual
and
so
kindly
.
And
she
was
sure
,
if
he
would
but
come
,
that
Clyde
would
find
him
a
helpful
and
a
strong
support
in
these
,
his
dark
and
weary
hours
when
she
could
no
longer
be
with
him
herself
.
For
while
Mrs.
Griffiths
was
first
canvassing
the
churches
and
ministers
of
this
section
for
aid
for
her
son
,
and
getting
very
little
from
any
quarter
,
she
had
met
the
Rev.
Duncan
McMillan
in
Syracuse
,
where
he
was
conducting
an
independent
,
non-sectarian
church
.
He
was
a
young
,
and
like
herself
or
Asa
,
unordained
minister
or
evangelist
of
,
however
,
far
stronger
and
more
effective
temperament
religiously
.
At
the
time
Mrs.
Griffiths
appeared
on
the
scene
,
he
had
already
read
much
concerning
Clyde
and
Roberta
--
and
was
fairly
well
satisfied
that
,
by
the
verdict
arrived
at
,
justice
had
probably
been
done
.
However
,
because
of
her
great
sorrow
and
troubled
search
for
aid
he
was
greatly
moved
.
He
,
himself
,
was
a
devoted
son
.
And
possessing
a
highly
poetic
and
emotional
though
so
far
repressed
or
sublimated
sex
nature
,
he
was
one
who
,
out
of
many
in
this
northern
region
,
had
been
touched
and
stirred
by
the
crime
of
which
Clyde
was
presumed
to
be
guilty
.
Those
highly
emotional
and
tortured
letters
of
Roberta
's
!
Her
seemingly
sad
life
at
Lycurgus
and
Biltz
!
How
often
he
had
thought
of
those
before
ever
he
had
encountered
Mrs.
Griffiths
.
The
simple
and
worthy
virtues
which
Roberta
and
her
family
had
seemingly
represented
in
that
romantic
,
pretty
country
world
from
which
they
had
derived
.
Unquestionably
Clyde
was
guilty
.
And
yet
here
,
suddenly
,
Mrs.
Griffiths
,
very
lorn
and
miserable
and
maintaining
her
son
's
innocence
.
At
the
same
time
there
was
Clyde
in
his
cell
doomed
to
die
.
Was
it
possible
that
by
any
strange
freak
or
circumstance
--
a
legal
mistake
had
been
made
and
Clyde
was
not
as
guilty
as
he
appeared
?
The
temperament
of
McMillan
was
exceptional
--
tense
,
exotic
.
A
present
hour
St.
Bernard
,
Savonarola
,
St.
Simeon
,
Peter
the
Hermit
.
Thinking
of
life
,
thought
,
all
forms
and
social
structures
as
the
word
,
the
expression
,
the
breath
of
God
.
No
less
.
Yet
room
for
the
Devil
and
his
anger
--
the
expelled
Lucifer
--
going
to
and
fro
in
the
earth
.
Yet
,
thinking
on
the
Beatitudes
,
on
the
Sermon
on
the
Mount
,
on
St.
John
and
his
direct
seeing
and
interpretation
of
Christ
and
God
.
"
He
that
is
not
with
me
is
against
me
;
and
he
that
gathereth
not
with
me
,
scattereth
.
"
A
strange
,
strong
,
tense
,
confused
,
merciful
and
too
,
after
his
fashion
beautiful
soul
;
sorrowing
with
misery
yearning
toward
an
impossible
justice
.
Mrs.
Griffiths
in
her
talks
with
him
had
maintained
that
he
was
to
remember
that
Roberta
was
not
wholly
guiltless
.
Had
she
not
sinned
with
her
son
?
And
how
was
he
to
exculpate
her
entirely
?
A
great
legal
mistake
.
Her
son
was
being
most
unjustly
executed
--
and
by
the
pitiful
but
none-the-less
romantic
and
poetic
letters
of
this
girl
which
should
never
have
been
poured
forth
upon
a
jury
of
men
at
all
.
They
were
,
as
she
now
maintained
,
incapable
of
judging
justly
or
fairly
where
anything
sad
in
connection
with
a
romantic
and
pretty
girl
was
concerned
.
She
had
found
that
to
be
true
in
her
mission
work
.
And
this
idea
now
appealed
to
the
Rev.
Duncan
as
important
and
very
likely
true
.
And
perhaps
,
as
she
now
contended
,
if
only
some
powerful
and
righteous
emissary
of
God
would
visit
Clyde
and
through
the
force
of
his
faith
and
God
's
word
make
him
see
--
which
she
was
sure
he
did
not
yet
,
and
which
she
in
her
troubled
state
,
and
because
she
was
his
mother
,
could
not
make
him
--
the
blackness
and
terror
of
his
sin
with
Roberta
as
it
related
to
his
immortal
soul
here
and
hereafter
--
then
in
gratitude
to
,
reverence
and
faith
in
God
,
would
be
washed
away
,
all
his
iniquity
,
would
it
not
?
For
irrespective
of
whether
he
had
committed
the
crime
now
charged
against
him
or
not
--
and
she
was
convinced
that
he
had
not
--
was
he
not
,
nevertheless
,
in
the
shadow
of
the
electric
chair
--
in
danger
at
any
time
through
death
(
even
before
a
decision
should
be
reached
)
of
being
called
before
his
maker
--
and
with
the
deadly
sin
of
adultery
,
to
say
nothing
of
all
his
lies
and
false
conduct
,
not
only
in
connection
with
Roberta
but
that
other
girl
there
in
Lycurgus
,
upon
him
?
And
by
conversion
and
contrition
should
he
not
be
purged
of
this
?
If
only
his
soul
were
saved
--
she
and
he
too
would
be
at
peace
in
this
world
.
And
after
a
first
and
later
a
second
pleading
letter
from
Mrs.
Griffiths
,
in
which
,
after
she
had
arrived
at
Denver
,
she
set
forth
Clyde
's
loneliness
and
need
of
counsel
and
aid
,
the
Rev.
Duncan
setting
forth
for
Auburn
.
