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Moody kept rubbing his face, rhythers His eyes closed, then opened He went on

“I was just a youngthe war,” he said “You ever heard that expression, how they say the ground ran red with blood?”

I said I had heard it

“I saith round run red I was up at Vicksburg, just after the fight I saw… oh, Lord Hurts to re heaps of ’em outside the hospital tent All rottin’ in the sun”

I could see the horror of it all in my mind’s eye

“But bad as it was,” Abrahae at the first, then they took it back But what happened in that courtrooe it You just wait You’ll live to see it”

He fell into such a deep silence that I thought he e into the next world

But he had a few more words to say

“Moody said you told the jury a saying from the book of Samuel,” he said

I nodded

“That’s one of es,” he said “I sure hated to miss you Would you say it out to me now?”

“Of course, Abraham,” I said

I cleared my throat

“For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart”

Then Abraham spoke the last words he would ever say to me