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What was it you wanted to ask, Rufus?” he heard his aunt say.
He tried to remember and remembered. “What’s kuh, kuhkush, kuh ... ?”
“Con-cus-sion, Rufus. Concus-sion of the brain. That’s the doctor’s name for what happened. It means, it’s as if the brain were hit very hard and suddenly, and joggled loose. The instant that happens, your father was—he ...”
“Instantly killed.”
She nodded.
“Then it was that, that put him to sleep.”
“Hyess.”
“Not God.”
Catherine looked at him, bewildered.