so moses explains how there was a battle between the soldiers and the brigands , how he came down into the middle of it to find abraham , how he saw the vestal amata but then lost track of her , how he killed fletcher with a bullet to his brain , how he found someone he took to be abraham but it turned out not to be and the man died anyway , how the whole valley got urpped into the sky by fire , how moses got to his feet and walked away , how the world was so empty , and the sky so sooty from smoke , how he happened upon the garage and chanced to look inside .