Chapter 13

Unjust Deaths and a Deathly Justice

Tuesday, January 22, 1861

Determined to reread Aeschylus’ Oresteia for the hidden meaning of justice, Jude Royer slipped out the gloomy farmhouse for the barn. It wasn’t the weight of Martin’s sickness pervading every soul in the house but that he did not trust his brothers if they saw a book in his hands. And he also did not trust himself in front of th…