00:05give me your son she hesitated then she let him and he took the boy light far too light
00:14and went up the narrow stairs to the room above where he slept and laid him on his own bed
00:20he closed the door he knelt in the room stretched out his arms and spoke
00:28oh lord my god have you brought this upon the widow to the woman who took me in by taking
00:38her son from
00:39her it was not an accusation it was the question of a man who does not understand and does not
00:46pretend to understand oh lord my god let this child's life come back into him he bent over
00:56the boy forehead against the small chest beard against the child's hair he remained like that
01:08motionless he straightened up he bent down again he straightened up he bent down a third time and the
01:17room fell into absolute silence the kind of silence in which one can hear one's own blood then the boy's
01:27eyelids trembled the small chest rose sharply his lips parted and he drew in a long ragged breath and
01:37coughed and his eyes open dark confused and met the face above him Elijah closed his eyes for a moment
01:49then he took the boy in his arms and the boy clung to his neck and they went down the
01:55stairs the mother
01:57was at the foot of the stairs both hands over her mouth see your son lives
02:35now i know
02:41now i know that you are a man of god and that the word of the lord in your mouth
02:46is truth
02:47Elijah said nothing he climbed back up the stairs sat on the empty bed and remained there for a long
02:54time with his face in his hands
