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"So?" I answered. "He made some horrid stains on my tablecloth."
"So he had another name. But you knew that. Best hypothesis makes him a
member of the same gang as your friend Bill... who was a smiling villain if one
ever smiled, as well as a consummate actor. We call them The Revisionists.
Motivation had to be Adam Selene. Not Walker Evans."
"Why did he mention Walker Evans?"
'To shake you up, maybe. Dickie, I didn't know about General Evans until
you brought the matter up, since that debacle is still in my future. My normal
future. I can see how it weighs on your mind. Will weigh on your mind. Remember,
I didn't know that you had been invalided out of the Andorran Contract Crusaders
until you told me.
"Anyhow- All of the 'Friends of Walker Evans' are dead except you and one
who went to the Asteroids and can't be found. This is as of July tenth, 2188,
eleven years forward. Unless you want to talk to any alive on some date not
quite so forward."
"Can't see any reason to."
"So it seemed to us. Now Walker Evans himself. Lazarus handled this... and
a spot of world-changing, partly to show you what can be done. No attempt was
made to revise the battle. It would be difficult, in 2177, to revise a battle in
2178 without utterly changing your life. Either kill you that year, or not lose
your leg and you stay in the service-yes, I now know about your leg although
it's forward from here
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