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arms, murdered in her sleep by a
well-directed blow which had battered in her face.
At the foot of the bed lay a gallant little
Chasseur d’Afrique in his wide red trousers
and gold-braided tunic with both his arms
torn out of their sockets.
“Over the settee where the dead teddy
bear sat was a large picture of three lovely
children with long curls and delicate, refined
faces. Holding each other by the hand they
smiled happily upon their fairy world. On
the pale blue rug before the settee was the
big, dirty mark of an enormous foot.
“There is a name for the treacherous
invasion and the merciless pillage of a
peace-loving land, and thousands of arms are
raising the gallows where some day the guilty
shall swing. But what is the name for the
hatred that stole into this nursery, what is
the expiation that awaits the unclean
monster who came here to crush the laughter
of these three little children under his cloven
foot? How am I to classify the murderer
of a doll? What unknown power of darkness
led him here to this white room? Animal
instinct? Certainly not, for not even the
infuriated ape, sinister forerunner of
primitive man, would have simulated murder in
carrying out his work of wanton destruction!
Human instinct? Certainly not, for not
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