"Had he given me a fair chance? No! Even as I stood there alone, a self-convicted murderer, I drew strength from the words of a hymn we sometimes sang in church, 'Proclaim the day is near, the day in whose clear-shining light all wrong shall stand revealed.' It was time for the world to know the truth about Ike Campbell.
I felt a little sorry for Marta. She was the one who found us in the cellar when she came home from the meeting. It wasn't her fault. She didn't know and I didn't tell her.
I vaguely remember the trial. I set The Silent Star aside and basically I spilled my guts. I told the truth; everything that had been done to me by Ike. I don't know if anyone believed me or not.
Because I was just fourteen they didn't send me to the federal prison at that time. Instead they sent me to a boys' reformatory. They kept me there until I was twenty-one. At that time I stood before a Judge again. I didn't say much but somehow the Judge was convinced that I was reformed and I was free at last.
I didn't know what to do with the freedom."
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The Silent Star Plus a Dozen is available in Kindle format only.
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