There, conspicuous in the light of the conflagration, lay the dead body of a woman__he white face turned upward, the hands thrown out and clutched full of grass, the clothing deranged, the long dark hair in tangles and full of clotted blood. The greater part of the forehead was torn away, and from the jagged hole the brain protruded, overflowing the temple, a frothy mass of gray, crowned with clusters of crimson bubbles__he work of a shell.The child moved his little hands, making wild, uncertain gestures. He uttered a series of inarticulate and indescribable cries__omething between the chattering of an ape and the gobbling of a turkey__ startling, soulless, unholy sound, the language of a devil. The child was a deaf mute.Then he stood motionless, with quivering lips, looking down upon the wreck.
Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It__ this. He__ thinking that he can__ win the war if he doesn__ keep the people on his side. He__ thinking that he can__ keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population__aping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he__ thinking that it doesn__ matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have cried. He is thinking that in the long run if he executes somebody, he__l shorten the war and save more lives. It doesn__ matter to him very much who he executes; one man__ agony is like another__, one mother__ tears are no wetter than anybody else__. And that__ why he__ going to have Sam shot.
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Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It__ this. He__ thinking that he can__ win the war if he doesn__ keep the people on his side. He__ thinking that he can__ keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population__aping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he__ thinking that it doesn__ matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have cried. He is thinking that in the long run if he executes somebody, he__l shorten the war and save more lives. It doesn__ matter to him very much who he executes; one man__ agony is like another__, one mother__ tears are no wetter than anybody else__. And that__ why he__ going to have Sam shot.
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