The stranger - a midlander who was most assuredly NOT Warren, though the author sees now how that could have been interpreted - looked at the doubts cast on his words and seemed to embrace those obstacles as small hurdles which to trample.
"My testimony is the same as every truthful citizen who witnessed the brutality of our so-called-self-declared protector! A man was accosted without questioning or reasoning, his body hastily destroyed and the evidence burned! Surely we should not question the immutable word of 'law,', friend! Surely, we too might find ourselves possessed of the void and dealt with similarly!"
"My testimony is the same as every truthful citizen who witnessed the brutality of our so-called-self-declared protector! A man was accosted without questioning or reasoning, his body hastily destroyed and the evidence burned! Surely we should not question the immutable word of 'law,', friend! Surely, we too might find ourselves possessed of the void and dealt with similarly!"