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Excerpt from The Heart of the Furnace And now he was in prison, awaiting trial. Well, whatever he had done, his conscience was clean; no body should argue him out of that. Hadn't he had time to think it over, to think it all out? Weeks and weeks in gaol? And now he was to come to trial. To-day. Well, he would tell them. Broido had de served it, he had deserved all he got, the dirty swine that he had turned out to be. His friend, yet all the time a dirty swine. What could they do to a blind man? It was an accident, how could it be anything else? They must see that. Of course he hadn't meant to do him in. 'mad? No, I wasn't mad, he said, unless something in me was. Some swift ferocity, uncontrollable. He hadn't meant to do him in. He had told them the truth, he would tell the judge the truth to-day. Per haps the judge would only send him back to the workshop. But if he didn't? Well, what was the dif ference, he said in his hopelessness, between prison and workshop for a blind man? Very little. No, a lot. He would be cut off from voices, nobody to listen to, nobody to talk to, not even Broido. Broido his friend. No voices in the. Prison, no sounds of any sort. He would have nothing. He would just be able to make out where the window was, he could make out where the window was now by standing under it and turn ing his face up to the light - he supposed there were bars across the window. Funny having bars across the window and locking the door to keep a blind man in. Funny locking doors on anyone, one man lock-ing a door on another. No, the Workshop would be much better; he Would hear the men talking, Richards, Meiring, even Broido. Surely the judge would send him back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.