Scene VII. (On the lawn.)
Baker
(To Corbett.)
Why did you shoot? You had no orders to?
I’ll take you back to Washington in chains!
Why did you shoot?
Corbett
God told me to.
Baker
It looks it.
You hit him just behind the ear. Same place
Where Lincoln got the mortal wound.
Booth
Tell mother
I died for country, liberty, as Brutus
Did what he did for Rome. I thought it best
To do what I have done. God’s will be done
As I have tried to do it.