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The priest's in.|uisitorial instincts suffered but little from the want <>: .1 apparatus of the inquisition. At no time of the worKl's history have men been at a .loss how to inflict mental and bodily anguish upon their fellow-creatures. This aptitude came to them in the growing complexity of their passions and the early refinement of their ingenuity. But it may safely be said that primeval man did not go to the trouble of inventing tortures. He was indolent and pure of rt. He brained his neighbor ferociously with a stone axe from necessity and without malice. The stupidest mind may invent a rankling phrase or brand the innocent with a cruel aspersion. A piece of string and a ramrod, a few muskets in combination with a length of hide rope, or even a simple mallet of heavy, hard wood applied with a swing to human fingers or to the joints of a human body, is enough for the in- fliction of the most exquisite torture The doctor had been a very stubborn prisoner, and, as a natural con- sequence of that "bad disposition" (so Father Beron called it), his subjugation had been very crushing and complete. That is why the limp in his walk, the twist of his shoulders, the scars on his cheeks were so pr. .nounced. His confessions, when they came at last, were very complete, too. Sometimes, on the nights when he walked the floor, he wondered, grinding his i with shame and rage, at the fertility of his im- agination when stimulated by a sort of pain which makes truth, honor, self-respect, and life itself matters

of little moment.