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They took Joab's pistol and led him outside. Didn't even leave him time to put on a coat. They marched him over to the opera house, but then just stood there waiting outside. Why didn't they take him in? Sam asked.
Soon enough, as if called to, the doors of the opera house opened and out stepped the Negro woman, Mrs. Henry, who played a part in killing his mother. Instinctively he reached to his side for his pistol. They were smart to have taken it from him. Even without the rounds in the chamber, he would've run at her and tried to split her skull. Though it looked like someone else had done that work for him already.