“Samuel.” Samuel lifted his head. “Samuel.” The boy rolled off his sleeping pallet and slipped through the heavy brocade of the lamp-lit sanctuary. He ran, light on the balls of his feet, to the end of the curtained corridor where the high priest Eli slept on a cot. The old man was loosing his eyesight. […]
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