They asked the man to confess to the charge, and he said he could not, for it was not true.

Then they drove splinter after splinter under his nails, and he shrieked with the pain.

Satan was not disturbed, but I could not endure it, and had to be whisked out of there.

I was faint and sick, but the fresh air revived me, and we walked toward my home.

I said it was a brutal thing.
"No, it was a human thing.