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She nodded

Now that I was close to the dangling bodies, I saw the welts left by whips, the bloody wounds covering al down froer man sloisted, I saw that his testicles had been severed from his body

My voice finally came out choked “Oh, I am so sorry”

I noticed a pink, rubbery thing in her hand, soer as she wept

She saw“You want to knohat it is? It’s ue out of his head Stop him from sassin’ them”

I looked up Blood was thickly caked around the older man’s mouth

“Oh, Jesus!”

“Ain’t no Jesus,” she said “There ain’t no Jesus for me”

She wept so terribly I could not hold

For a

Then a noise A rustling in the underbrush, a crackling of twigs I saw birds fly up in alarm

Someone was there

No doubt about it

So us

And then out came several people, some men but also women, black people from the Quarters come to cut down the father and son who had been murdered