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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER XIV
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There was something in his appearance that, in my mind, cast a doubt over his conversion.

Standing where I did, I could see his every movement.

I watched narrowly while he remained in the little pen; and although I saw that his face was extremely red, and his hair disheveled, and though I heard him groan, and saw a stray tear halting on his cheek, as if inquiring "which way shall I go ?"--I could not wholly confide in the genuineness of his conversion.

The hesitating behavior of that tear-drop and its loneliness, distressed me, and cast a doubt upon the whole transaction, of which it was a part.

But people said, _"Capt.


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