Part I: The Last Chapter
The Reverend Silas Murray began writing the final chapter of his "Oakvale Chronicle" on an afternoon in October 1893. He was sixty years old, a country doctor, and he had been observing the people of Oakvale, Mississippi, for thirty-five years. His hands shook slightly as he held the pen--not from age, but from the quinine he took for his recurring malaria--and the handwriting was not his best,...
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