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Riders of the Silences

CHAPTER 2
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That don't help me none, lying here with a through ticket to some place that's farther south than Texas.
"Hell ain't none too bad for me, I know.

I ain't whining none.

I just lie here and watch the world getting dimmer until I begin to be seeing things out of my past.

That shows the devil ain't losing no time with me.

But the thing that comes back oftenest and hits me the hardest is the sight of your mother, lying with you in the hollow of her arm and looking up at me and whispering, 'Dad,' just before she went out." The hand of the boy fell, and his eyes sought the face of Father Victor.


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