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And another voice: Youdont want to be too down.
This whole business of the
death penalty was allwrong.
Few ate any supperas the departing trays showed.
Few ate any supperas the departing trays showed. And in consequence, in
addition to paying her own expenses here,Mrs. In addition another yearassuredly
must elapse before a decision could be reached. She had goneto their office and
they had urged her and him to be of good cheer.
Just the same, continued the
first voice, as I look back ontnow, it musta been pretty good. She could not
reasonably abandon her husband in order to aid Clydealone.
And another voice:
Youdont want to be too down. It was possible that he mightnot get well at all.
That was true,as he could see and feel after that first night. Sounds that
reminded him more of hungry animals being fedthan men. And some of these men
were actually talking as they ateand scraped.
The voice was very strained, very
tense, very miserable, and afterthis, silence. Oh, cut it out, came from
another corner.
Those highly emotional and tortured letters of Robertas!
Oh, he
knew all about those by now though theyshould never come to be put upon him,
maybe.
Orgrieving over some terrible thing like his own fate. And as forthe
public in the vicinity of the crime, it remembered Mrs.
The voice was very
strained, very tense, very miserable, and afterthis, silence. She had goneto
their office and they had urged her and him to be of good cheer. And then the
savage scraping of iron trays in the variouscells!
Wait aminute, theres a
better move than that.
Once more the voice from the lowest: Oh, my God!
And
then the savage scraping of iron trays in the variouscells!
Thereafter
theopening move was called by one. Once more the voice from the lowest: Oh, my
God!
And one of the first voices continuing: Oh, sure! At the same time there
was Clyde in his celldoomed to die. These wereplayed with each man locked in
his cell, yet quite as successfully.
And to lighten or darken his burdenhis
mother came at noon the very next day.
Jephson would be downto see him one of
these days soon.
And Clyde, amazed and dumb and pondering.
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