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you into the chair; I intended to kill you, the deliverer of my blind

mother! Take pity on me! Let not your just malediction follow nor, pardon!"

"Speak not thus, Julio But for you, that yawning grave would now cover my

corpse Shall I refuse pardon to you who spared ive aloodness of God"

"Confidence?" said Julio, in a dying voice "I shudder to think of the

judghtful

clearness I dare not hope in God'sto merit

it A dark veil is before my eyes"

The death-rattle was in his throat

Geronimo passed his ar

Julio's eyes fixed upon him, he said, tenderly and fervently: "Julio, listen to me! You say you dare not hope in the otten that Jesus Christ shed his blood to redeem fallen els when a sinner, by sincere

repentance, escapes the eternal enemy of man and enters triumphant into

heaven? You repent, do you not? You sincerely repent?"