Later it seemed to me as if the very heavens had protested the bad death of Eduard Delacroix.Įverything went just fine to begin with. There was a tornado in Trapingus County around ten that night - it killed four people and tore the roof off the livery stable in Tefton - and vicious thunderstorms and gale-force winds at Cold Mountain. They moved closer as the night came down, and we could see blue-white forks of lightning jabbing out of them. Thunder was rumbling in the west when I came to work, and the dark clouds were beginning to stack up there. The next day was the thickest yet, and the last of our strange October heat.
