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The Girl at the Halfway House

CHAPTER XXVIII
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They say that the man of unsound mind is touched by the hand of the Great Spirit.

Shall we be less merciful than they?
Look at this smiling giant before you.

He has been touched by the hand of the Almighty.

God has punished him enough.
"I shall show to you that when this man was a child he was struck a severe blow upon the head, and that since that time he has never been of sound mind, his brain never recovering from that shock, a blow which actually broke in a portion of his skull.

Since that time he has had recurrent times of violent insanity, with alternating spells of what seems a semi-idiocy.


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