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"Time I caught up with them," Longarm went on, "there was already an
ambulance there. I don't know how they got there so quick, but they did,
and I know they were trying their best. The carriage was torn all to
pieces. The whole back end of it was laying in the street back by the
Federal Building. That and Mrs. Troutman's body.

"The ambulance attendants were picking up the commissioner when I got
there. They had the back end of the ambulance open, and they were putting
the commissioner on a stretcher. I could see that part of his
leg"--Longarm paused, frowning in thought--"his right leg, I think it was,
was missing. I remember that real clear because one of the men on the
ambulance after they put the stretcher inside, he reached down and picked
up the missing piece of leg and laid it onto the stretcher beside where it
should've gone if it hadn't got blowed off."

"Jesus, God," Henry said, whispering it in such a way that Longarm
didn't take it for blasphemy but for a sort of prayer instead.

"Billy and Mr. Terrell ..." Longarm squeezed his eyes shut for a
moment, although he kept his face turned away so Henry wouldn't see. "I
tell you true, Henry, I never seen so much blood. They was both covered
with it from top to toe. It was ... it was pretty awful."

"The thing is ... d'you think he suffered?" Henry asked. "That's what
I've been worrying over ever since it happened. Did he suffer any?"

"That much blood ... I don't expect he would have. He must have died
quick, I think."

"He wasn't moving when they picked him up?"

"No, nor the attorney. The only one that showed any life was the
commissioner, and he was screaming and losing blood in great, awful gouts
of the stuff. I doubt he lasted halfway to the hospital unless they
managed to get the bleeding stopped somehow."

"But the marshal ...?"

"I never saw him move at all. He just laid there all awash in blood,
and they picked him up and then Terrell, and after that they were clanging
the bell and running like hell toward the hospital."

"You didn't follow after them?"

"Not then. I circled back and walked the streets some, thinking I
could maybe spot the bomber trying to slip away unnoticed. But I never saw
anything more of him. I expect he got rid of the cloak right away, and I
don't know about you but I never saw what he had on under it, so I prob'ly
could've walked right past him on the sidewalk and never known it. Later
on that evening I went over to the hospital. They told me none of them