"To the fearless mind, to the inviolate truth"-anotherpart was a plain, brute, animal fear of physical destruction, ahumiliating fear which, in the civilized world of his youth, he hadnot expected ever to experience-and the third was the terror o
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"To the fearless mind, to the inviolate truth"-anotherpart was a plain, brute, animal fear of physical destruction, ahumiliating fear which, in the civilized world of his youth, he hadnot expected ever to experience-and the third was the terror of theknowledge that by betraying the first, one delivers oneself into therealm of the second.He walked toward the speaker's scaffold, his steps firm and slow,his head lifted, the manuscript of the speech held crumpled in hisfingers. It looked like a walk to mount either a pedestal or aguillotine. As the whole of a man's life flashes before him in hisdying moment, so he walked to the sound of the announcer's voicereading to the country the list of Robert Stadler's achievements andcareer. A faint convulsion ran over Robert Stadler's face at thewords: "-former head of the Department of Physics of the PatrickHenry University." He knew, distantly, not as if the knowledge werewithin him, but as if it were within some person he was leavingbehind, that the crowd was about to witness an act of destructionmore terrible than the destruction of. the farm.
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