【美国故事】无声歌手 (6/7)

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Mute Singer
Last CommunionThe Mute Singer pointed to his chest and made the sign of the cross. A beggar said, "He wants me to give him the last rites of the church. Can you get me a piece of bread?"
"But you are not a priest," I said.
"This is something any man would be glad to do for him. It is an emergency. But I am dirty, my clothes are dirty. Hurry, get some bread and a white shirt."
I ran out and got some bread. Next to my house was a synagogue. In the dark I saw the rabbi's finest white shirt hanging to be dried. I took the shirt and hurried to the side of the dying Mute Singer.
The beggar put on the white shirt, and gave me a candle to hold. Then he got down close to the Mute Singer and said:
"Hear me, my brother! Open your eyes if you can, so that you may see the sign of the cross made over you. Here is your Last Communion, a beggar's Communion of black bread."
The dying man looked at the beggar, smiled weakly and left us forever.