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I never said it would. If he’s dead, my business is ’ith the man that killed him!

Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord! I will repay!

He has to have a instrument to work through! Even God cain’t smite evildoers ’thout a fist!

[He goes out with sways back and forth despairingly.]

If they is a God an’ He’s almighty like they say, I cain’t see why He don’t stop things like this!

Mebby He don’t want to stop ’em!

Then He ain’t a just God!

[Moves away from her instinctively]

I wouldn’t say things like that, Meg! All His jedgments are just an’ righteous altogether!