The Gentleman, sammanfattning av Chapter 148

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1. The Parson groans as Knapp describes hearing the Gentleman suffer on the other side of a door.
2. Knapp begs for help, but Mr. Piper says neither of them can act and compares the Gentleman’s suffering to Jesus’s.
3. At Knapp’s urging, Piper mutters a prayer, then stops to listen and announces an answer.
4. A distant rumble grows into a roaring charge, and a voice orders an attack without mercy.
5. Knapp calls the noise Judgment Day for the attackers; Piper identifies horse dragoons before his head falls sideways again.

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Piper gives the terrifying noise a concrete source while also calling it an answer to prayer. The announcement shifts the account from helpless suffering toward armed intervention.

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