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"Merciful God!" she cried, "this cannot
be;" and she sank into a chair, sobbing almost hysterically.
For reasons of his own, Dr. Barnes did not interfere. Nature in
powerful manifestations was actuating the parents; and he decided,
now that things had gone so far, to let the entire energy of
uncurbed emotion, combined with all the mysterious affinity of the
closest kinship, exert its influence on the clogged brain of his
patient.
For a few moments Mrs. Nichol was too greatly overcome to
comprehend anything clearly; her husband, on the other hand, was
simply wrought up to his highest capacity for action. His old
instinct of authority returned, and he seized his son's hand and
began, "Now, see here, Albert, you were wounded in your head--"
"Yes, right yere," interrupted Nichol, pointing to his scar. "I
knows all 'bout that, but I don't like these goin's on, ez ef I
wuz a nachel-bawn fool, en had ter bleve all folks sez. I've been
taken in too often. When I wuz with the Johnnies they'd say ter
me, 'Yankee Blank, see that ar critter? That's a elephant.


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