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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER IX
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Then Thou wilt come back with me to earth, wilt Thou not, Jesus ?" Eventually Judas reached the summit and the crooked tree, and there the wind began to torment him.

And when Judas rebuked it, it began to blow soft and low, and took leave and flew away.
"Right! But as for them, they are curs!" said Judas, making a slip-knot.
And since the rope might fail him and break, he hung it over a precipice, so that if it broke, he would be sure to meet his death upon the stones.

And before he shoved himself off the brink with his foot, and hanged himself, Judas Iscariot once more anxiously prepared Jesus for his coming: "Yes, meet me kindly, Jesus.

I am very weary." He leapt.

The rope strained, but held.


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