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Chapter 1

           NowtherightandthewrongofthisaffairwithProfessorHaskellIshallnotdiscuss.Itwaspurelyaprivatematter.Thepointis,thatinasurgeofanger,obsessedbythatcatastrophicredwraththathascursedmedowntheages,Ikilledmyfellowprofessor.ThecourtrecordsshowthatIdid;and,foronce,Iagreewiththecourtrecords.

           No;Iamnottobehangedforhismurder.Ireceivedalife-sentenceformypunishment.Iwasthirty-sixyearsofageatthetime.Iamnowforty-fouryearsold.IhavespenttheeightinterveningyearsintheCaliforniaStatePrisonofSanQuentin.FiveoftheseyearsIspentinthedark.Solitaryconfinement,theycallit.Menwhoendureit,callitlivingdeath.Butthroughthesefiveyearsofdeath-in-lifeImanagedtoattainfreedomsuchasfewmenhaveeverknown.Closest-confinedofprisoners,notonlydidIrangetheworld,butIrangedtime.Theywhoimmuredmeforpettyyearsgavetome,allunwittingly,thelargessofcenturies.Truly,thankstoEdMorrell,Ihavehadfiveyearsofstar-roving.ButEdMorrellisanotherstory.Ishalltellyouabouthimalittlelater.IhavesomuchtotellIscarceknowhowtobegin.

           Well,abeginning.Iwasbornonaquarter-sectioninMinnesota.MymotherwasthedaughterofanimmigrantSwede.HernamewasHildaTonnesson.MyfatherwasChaunceyStanding,ofoldAmericanstock.

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