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On
the
other
hand
,
no
doubt
if
he
were
sent
to
the
chair
now
in
the
face
of
his
first
--
and
yet
so
clear
manifestation
of
contrition
--
when
now
,
for
the
first
time
he
was
beginning
to
grasp
the
enormity
of
his
offense
--
it
would
be
but
to
compound
crime
with
crime
--
the
state
in
this
instance
being
the
aggressor
.
For
,
like
the
warden
and
many
others
,
McMillan
was
against
capital
punishment
--
preferring
to
compel
the
wrong-doer
to
serve
the
state
in
some
way
.
But
,
none-the-less
,
he
felt
himself
compelled
to
acknowledge
,
Clyde
was
far
from
innocent
.
Think
as
he
would
--
and
however
much
spiritually
he
desired
to
absolve
him
,
was
he
not
actually
guilty
?
In
vain
it
was
that
McMillan
now
pointed
out
to
Clyde
that
his
awakened
moral
and
spiritual
understanding
more
perfectly
and
beautifully
fitted
him
for
life
and
action
than
ever
before
.
He
was
alone
.
He
had
no
one
who
believed
in
him
.
NO
ONE
.
He
had
no
one
,
whom
,
in
any
of
his
troubled
and
tortured
actions
before
that
crime
saw
anything
but
the
darkest
guilt
apparently
.
And
yet
--
and
yet
--
(
and
this
despite
Sondra
and
the
Reverend
McMillan
and
all
the
world
for
that
matter
,
Mason
,
the
jury
at
Bridgeburg
,
the
Court
of
Appeals
at
Albany
,
if
it
should
decide
to
confirm
the
jury
at
Bridgeburg
)
,
he
had
a
feeling
in
his
heart
that
he
was
not
as
guilty
as
they
all
seemed
to
think
.
After
all
they
had
not
been
tortured
as
he
had
by
Roberta
with
her
determination
that
he
marry
her
and
thus
ruin
his
whole
life
.
They
had
not
burned
with
that
unquenchable
passion
for
the
Sondra
of
his
beautiful
dream
as
he
had
.
They
had
not
been
harassed
,
tortured
,
mocked
by
the
ill-fate
of
his
early
life
and
training
,
forced
to
sing
and
pray
on
the
streets
as
he
had
in
such
a
degrading
way
,
when
his
whole
heart
and
soul
cried
out
for
better
things
.
How
could
they
judge
him
,
these
people
,
all
or
any
one
of
them
,
even
his
own
mother
,
when
they
did
not
know
what
his
own
mental
,
physical
and
spiritual
suffering
had
been
?
And
as
he
lived
through
it
again
in
his
thoughts
at
this
moment
the
sting
and
mental
poison
of
it
was
as
real
to
him
as
ever
.
Even
in
the
face
of
all
the
facts
and
as
much
as
every
one
felt
him
to
be
guilty
,
there
was
something
so
deep
within
him
that
seemed
to
cry
out
against
it
that
,
even
now
,
at
times
,
it
startled
him
.
Still
--
there
was
the
Reverend
McMillan
--
he
was
a
very
fair
and
just
and
merciful
man
.
Surely
he
saw
all
this
from
a
higher
light
and
better
viewpoint
than
his
own
.
While
at
times
he
felt
strongly
that
he
was
innocent
,
at
others
he
felt
that
he
must
be
guilty
.
Oh
,
these
evasive
and
tangled
and
torturesome
thoughts
!!
Would
he
never
be
able
--
quite
--
to
get
the
whole
thing
straightened
out
in
his
own
mind
?
So
Clyde
not
being
able
to
take
advantage
truly
of
either
the
tenderness
and
faith
and
devotion
of
so
good
and
pure
a
soul
as
the
Reverend
McMillan
or
the
all
merciful
and
all
powerful
God
of
whom
here
he
stood
as
the
ambassador
.
What
was
he
to
do
,
really
?
How
pray
,
resignedly
,
unreservedly
,
faithfully
?
And
in
that
mood
--
and
because
of
the
urge
of
the
Reverend
Duncan
,
who
was
convinced
by
Clyde
's
confession
that
he
must
have
been
completely
infused
with
the
spirit
of
God
,
once
more
thumbing
through
the
various
passages
and
chapters
pointed
out
to
him
--
reading
and
re-reading
the
Psalms
most
familiar
to
him
,
seeking
from
their
inspiration
to
catch
the
necessary
contrition
--
which
once
caught
would
give
him
that
peace
and
strength
which
in
those
long
and
dreary
hours
he
so
much
desired
.
Yet
never
quite
catching
it
.
Parallel
with
all
this
,
four
more
months
passed
.
And
at
the
end
of
that
time
--
in
January
,
19
--
the
Court
of
Appeals
finding
(
Fulham
,
Jr.
,
reviewing
the
evidence
as
offered
by
Belknap
and
Jephson
)
--
with
Kincaid
,
Briggs
,
Truman
and
Dobshutter
concurring
,
that
Clyde
was
guilty
as
decided
by
the
Cataraqui
County
jury
and
sentencing
him
to
die
at
some
time
within
the
week
beginning
February
28th
or
six
weeks
later
--
and
saying
in
conclusion
:
"
We
are
mindful
that
this
is
a
case
of
circumstantial
evidence
and
that
the
only
eyewitness
denies
that
death
was
the
result
of
crime
.
But
in
obedience
to
the
most
exacting
requirements
of
that
manner
of
proof
,
the
counsel
for
the
people
,
with
very
unusual
thoroughness
and
ability
has
investigated
and
presented
evidence
of
a
great
number
of
circumstances
for
the
purpose
of
truly
solving
the
question
of
the
defendant
's
guilt
or
innocence
.
"
We
might
think
that
the
proof
of
some
of
these
facts
standing
by
themselves
was
subject
to
doubt
by
reason
of
unsatisfactory
or
contradictory
evidence
,
and
that
other
occurrences
might
be
so
explained
or
interpreted
as
to
be
reconcilable
with
innocence
.
The
defense
--
and
very
ably
--
sought
to
enforce
this
view
.
