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Chapter 32

           Butwhatwastobehopedfororimagined?BecauseofthenewsuggestionofferedbyNicholson,anewtrialwasallthathehadtolookforwardto,inwhichcase,andassuminghimselftobeacquittedthereafter,hecouldgofar,faraway—toAustralia—orAfrica—orMexico—orsomesuchplaceasthat,where,underadifferentname—hisoldconnectionsandambitionsrelatingtothatsuperiorsociallifethathadsorecentlyintriguedhim,laidaside,hemightrecoverhimselfinsomesmallway.Butdirectlyinthepathofthathopefulimagining,ofcourse,stoodthedeath’sheadfigureofarefusalonthepartoftheCourtofAppealstogranthimanewtrial.Whynot—afterthatjuryatBridgeburg?Andthen—asinthatdreaminwhichheturnedfromthetangleofsnakestofacethetrampingrhinoceroswithitstwohorns—hewasconfrontedbythatawfulthingintheadjoiningroom—thatchair!Thatchair!Itsstrapsanditsflasheswhichsoregularlydimmedthelightsinthisroom.Hecouldnotbeartothinkofhisenteringthere—ever.Andyetsupposinghisappealwasrefused!Away!Hewouldliketothinknomoreaboutit.

           Butthen,apartfromthatwhatwastheretothinkof?ItwasthatveryquestionthatuptothetimeofthearrivaloftheRev.DuncanMcMillan,withhispleaforadirectandcertainly(asheinsisted)fruitfulappealtotheCreatorofallthings,thathadbeendefinitelytorturingClyde.

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