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The pent-up grief, remorse and a desire to avenge his father's death, must have given Roland McClintick superhuman strength that night. I don't know!
With surprising agility for one so frail he really had the advantage over Rivers from the start, for Charlie had been too stunned to resist after the hermit had identified himself.