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He ran back, yelping out his disappointment, and the bitterest part of it would be that no one would ever believe him but that is part of the liar's punishment. We got out of the town as soon as we could, and pushed on with all haste; we were afraid that news of our escape had been published, and that these people might be on the lookout for us.
"This," he remarked slowly, "is what I call my psychophysical test for falsehood. Lying, when it is practiced by an expert, is not easily detected by the most careful scrutiny of the liar's appearance and manner. "However, successful means have been developed for the detection of falsehood by the study of experimental psychology.
Then comes the pathos dear to the liar's soul the farewells of the dying, sobbed just seven seconds before sunset into comrades' ears; the faltering voice, the tear-dimmed eyes, the death rattle in the throat, the last hand clasps, the last deep-drawn breath, in which mother Mary and Heaven are always mingled; and then the moonlight and the moaning of the midnight wind!
They were deeply sympathetic and utterly loyal, of course, but as curious as any of the apes whose diet they had adopted. He had, of course, changed his kit, but his too heavy bridle-hand shook a little among the newspapers. On the inspiration of the moment, which is your natural liar's best hold, he told them that he was condemned to a rest-cure.
Who are you who wail for the liar's death, and shrink in horror from the hand that slew him? I ever heard that the daughters of the Goths were chaste and true and fearless. So they may be all but one, whose birth marked her for faithlessness. As though smitten by a brutal blow, Veranilda bowed her head, shuddering.
She laughed at last. It was rather a hard laugh without much mirth in it. "Your words are a liar's, but your voice rings true," she said. "I think you're only another of these diplomatists." "I'm that diplomatic I'm chancing my hide to save other peoples," he answered. "Let's be quite frank, Jael. I'm in danger out here. All I've got with me besides two respectable men are thieves from El-Kalil.
I am son and squire of a Moorish sire, who with the Christians strove, And the captive dame of Christian name was his fair wedded love; And I a child from that mother mild, who taught me at her knee Was ever told to be true and bold with a tongue that was frank and free, That the liar's art and the caitiff heart would lead to the house of doom; And still I must hear my mother dear, for she speaks to me from the tomb.
"My sweet love, my darling child," our mother went on to Lorna, in a way that I shall never forget, though I live to be a hundred; "pretty pet, not a word of it is true, upon that old liar's oath; and if every word were true, poor chick, you should have our John all the more for it. You and John were made by God and meant for one another, whatever falls between you.
"At all times it is the liar's wont still to lie. Small things or great use or no use!" "I am a prisoner and unarmed. You are the captor. To insult lies in your power." "That is a jargon that may be dropped between us. Yet I, too, am bound by conventions!
But he had deceived himself into thinking he was generous to make it with his illgotten gains; he had salved conscience with it it was a liar's gift, a self-deceiver's, a thief's. There was no kindness, no generosity in it, and she despised him and he was her father! She picked up the thing, paper and all, and crammed it into the dying fire. Then suddenly she burst into tears.
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