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. Either way, you don't go to Golden Rule, you don't marry
Hazel... and we aren't sitting here, talking about it. World-changing is touchy,
Dickie-best done in homeopathic doses.
"Lazarus has two messages for you. He says that you should feel no personal
guilt over that debacle. To do so would be as silly as a subordinate of Custer
feeling guilty over Little Big Horn... to which he adds that Custer was a far
more brilliant general than Evans ever was. Lazarus speaks as one who has held
every rank from private to commander in chief, in experience spread over many
centuries and seventeen wars.
"That's the first message. The second is this: Tell your nephew that, yes,
it horrifies nice people. But it happens. Only those who go out beyond the end
of street lights and of pavements know how such things can happen. He says that
he is certain that Walker Evans would not hold it against you. Dickie, what's he
talking about?"
"Had he wanted you to know, he would have told you." "Reasonable. Was
General Evans a man of good taste?" "What?" I stared at my uncle-then answered
reluctantly:
"Well, no, I would not say so. I found him tough and a bit stringy."
"Now we have it out in the open1-"
"Yes, damn you!" "-and I can tell you the rest, the world-changing. A field
operative hid a couple of ration packs under the General's body. When you moved
the body, you found them
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