"I tell you," he says, "I'm goina fix my heart on something that caint get tore away from it. And guard it like a dog with a old soup bone. I loved the woman--she left. I loved the boy--he's dead. I took care of this place all my life and now you want Carl to have it just because he's got a little cough and he's getting scared? Nobody held a gun to his head to make him go off to West Virginia. It all gets took away from you in the end except faith in the Savior."
Nelson turns around and glares at me in that bright light and then it happens for the first time. All of a sudden I see part of another Nelson standing to one side of him, in front of another fireplace. It takes my breath a second but I ain't scared. Dr. Weaver told me this might happen one of these days. He said the catarack is like a prison and can split light in half. I don't claim that makes sense to me. But he said I might see double some time. I put my forehead on my hands and rub my eyes.