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? ? ? ? "But this muscular spasm you speak of, is not that in a degree more or less invariable in these cases?"
? ? ? ? "Assuredly so, Mr. Purser."
? ? ? ? "How then, my good sir, do you account for its absence in this instance?"
? ? ? ? "Mr. Purser, it is clear that your sense of the singularity in this matter equals not mine. You account for it by what you call will-power, a term not yet included in the lexicon of science. For me I do not, with my present knowledge, pretend to account for it at all. Even should we assume the hypothesis that at the first touch of the halyards the action of Budd's heart, intensified by extraordinary emotion at its climax, abruptly stopt- much like a watch when in carelessly winding it up you strain at the finish, thus snapping the chain- even under that hypothesis, how account for the phenomenon that followed?"
? ? ? ? "You admit then that the absence of spasmodic movement was phenomenal."
? ? ? ? "It was phenomenal, Mr. Purser, in the sense that it was an appearance the cause of which is not immediately to be assigned."
? ? ? ? "But tell me, my dear Sir," pertinaciously continued the other, "was the man's death effected by the halter, or was it a species of euthanasia?"
? ? ? ? "Euthanasia, Mr.
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