“He stared in a dull paralysis of terror at the body of Elisha. He saw him standing – had Elisha forgotten? – beside Ella Mae before the altar while Father James rebuked him for the evil that lived in the flesh. He looked into Elisha’s face, full of questions he would never ask. And Elisha’s face told him nothing.”

“He stared in a dull paralysis of terror at the body of Elisha. He saw him standing – had Elisha forgotten? – beside Ella Mae before the altar while Father James rebuked him for the evil that lived in the flesh. He looked into Elisha’s face, full of questions he would never ask. And Elisha’s face told him nothing.”

— James Baldwin