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"
My
mother
.
I
suppose
some
one
ought
to
telegraph
her
.
She
is
going
to
feel
very
bad
"
And
then
:
"
I
do
n't
suppose
they
believed
that
those
letters
should
n't
have
been
introduced
just
as
they
were
,
did
they
?
I
thought
maybe
they
would
.
"
He
was
thinking
of
Nicholson
.
"
Do
n't
worry
,
Clyde
,
"
replied
the
tortured
and
saddened
McMillan
,
at
this
point
more
eager
to
take
him
in
his
arms
and
comfort
him
than
to
say
anything
at
all
.
"
I
have
already
telegraphed
your
mother
.
As
for
that
decision
--
I
will
see
your
lawyers
right
away
.
Besides
--
as
I
say
--
I
propose
to
see
the
Governor
myself
.
He
is
a
new
man
,
you
see
.
"
Once
more
he
was
now
repeating
all
that
Clyde
had
not
heard
before
.
The
scene
was
the
executive
chamber
of
the
newly
elected
Governor
of
the
State
of
New
York
some
three
weeks
after
the
news
conveyed
to
Clyde
by
McMillan
.
After
many
preliminary
and
futile
efforts
on
the
part
of
Belknap
and
Jephson
to
obtain
a
commutation
of
the
sentence
of
Clyde
from
death
to
life
imprisonment
(
the
customary
filing
of
a
plea
for
clemency
,
together
with
such
comments
as
they
had
to
make
in
regard
to
the
way
the
evidence
had
been
misinterpreted
and
the
illegality
of
introducing
the
letters
of
Roberta
in
their
original
form
,
to
all
of
which
Governor
Waltham
,
an
ex-district
attorney
and
judge
from
the
southern
part
of
the
state
,
had
been
conscientiously
compelled
to
reply
that
he
could
see
no
reason
for
interfering
)
there
was
now
before
Governor
Waltham
Mrs.
Griffiths
together
with
the
Reverend
McMillan
.
For
,
moved
by
the
widespread
interest
in
the
final
disposition
of
Clyde
's
case
,
as
well
as
the
fact
that
his
mother
,
because
of
her
unshaken
devotion
to
him
,
and
having
learned
of
the
decision
of
the
Court
of
Appeals
,
had
once
more
returned
to
Auburn
and
since
then
had
been
appealing
to
the
newspapers
,
as
well
as
to
himself
through
letters
for
a
correct
understanding
of
the
extenuating
circumstances
surrounding
her
son
's
downfall
,
and
because
she
herself
had
repeatedly
appealed
to
him
for
a
personal
interview
in
which
she
should
be
allowed
to
present
her
deepest
convictions
in
regard
to
all
this
,
the
Governor
had
at
last
consented
to
see
her
.
It
could
do
no
harm
.
Besides
it
would
tend
to
soothe
her
.
Also
variable
public
sentiment
,
whatever
its
convictions
in
any
given
case
,
was
usually
on
the
side
of
the
form
or
gesture
of
clemency
--
without
,
however
,
any
violence
to
its
convictions
.
And
,
in
this
case
,
if
one
could
judge
by
the
newspapers
,
the
public
was
convinced
that
Clyde
was
guilty
.
On
the
other
hand
,
Mrs.
Griffiths
,
owing
to
her
own
long
meditations
in
regard
to
Clyde
,
Roberta
,
his
sufferings
during
and
since
the
trial
,
the
fact
that
according
to
the
Reverend
McMillan
he
had
at
last
been
won
to
a
deep
contrition
and
a
spiritual
union
with
his
Creator
whatever
his
original
sin
,
was
now
more
than
ever
convinced
that
humanity
and
even
justice
demanded
that
at
least
he
be
allowed
to
live
.
And
so
standing
before
the
Governor
,
a
tall
,
sober
and
somewhat
somber
man
who
,
never
in
all
his
life
had
even
so
much
as
sensed
the
fevers
or
fires
that
Clyde
had
known
,
yet
who
,
being
a
decidedly
affectionate
father
and
husband
,
could
very
well
sense
what
Mrs.
Griffiths
'
present
emotions
must
be
.
Yet
greatly
exercised
by
the
compulsion
which
the
facts
,
as
he
understood
them
,
as
well
as
a
deep-seated
and
unchangeable
submission
to
law
and
order
,
thrust
upon
him
.
Like
the
pardon
clerk
before
him
,
he
had
read
all
the
evidence
submitted
to
the
Court
of
Appeals
,
as
well
as
the
latest
briefs
submitted
by
Belknap
and
Jephson
.
But
on
what
grounds
could
he
--
David
Waltham
,
and
without
any
new
or
varying
data
of
any
kind
--
just
a
reinterpretation
of
the
evidence
as
already
passed
upon
--
venture
to
change
Clyde
's
death
sentence
to
life
imprisonment
?
Had
not
a
jury
,
as
well
as
the
Court
of
Appeals
,
already
said
he
should
die
?
In
consequence
,
as
Mrs.
Griffiths
began
her
plea
,
her
voice
shaky
--
retracing
as
best
she
could
the
story
of
Clyde
's
life
,
his
virtues
,
the
fact
that
at
no
time
ever
had
he
been
a
bad
or
cruel
boy
--
that
Roberta
,
if
not
Miss
X
,
was
not
entirely
guiltless
in
the
matter
--
he
merely
gazed
at
her
deeply
moved
.
The
love
and
devotion
of
such
a
mother
!
Her
agony
in
this
hour
;
her
faith
that
her
son
could
not
be
as
evil
as
the
proven
facts
seemed
to
indicate
to
him
and
every
one
else
.
"
Oh
,
my
dear
Governor
,
how
can
the
sacrifice
of
my
son
's
life
now
,
and
when
spiritually
he
has
purged
his
soul
of
sin
and
is
ready
to
devote
himself
to
the
work
of
God
,
repay
the
state
for
the
loss
of
that
poor
,
dear
girl
's
life
,
whether
it
was
accidentally
or
otherwise
taken
--
how
can
it
?
Can
not
the
millions
of
people
of
the
state
of
New
York
be
merciful
?
Can
not
you
as
their
representative
exercise
the
mercy
that
they
may
feel
?
"
Her
voice
broke
--
she
could
not
go
on
.
Instead
she
turned
her
back
and
began
to
cry
silently
,
while
Waltham
,
shaken
by
an
emotion
he
could
not
master
,
merely
stood
there
.
This
poor
woman
!
So
obviously
honest
and
sincere
.
Then
the
Reverend
McMillan
,
seeing
his
opportunity
,
now
entering
his
plea
.
Clyde
had
changed
.
He
could
not
speak
as
to
his
life
before
--
but
since
his
incarceration
--
or
for
the
last
year
,
at
least
,
he
had
come
into
a
new
understanding
of
life
,
duty
,
his
obligations
to
man
and
God
.
If
but
the
death
sentence
could
be
commuted
to
life
imprisonment
--
