Michael Malone - Weebly

married her and Treeca would never and I would never
and Judith Haig would never!
He had thought his life's work would be in defense
of the disenfranchised. Instead he had defended money.
His wife's. But could he ever have defended, anyhow,
anyone who claimed an "irresistible" impulse to defile
another human being? He who had difficulty believing in
madness. He who had always responded to his son
Lance's claims that he could not help his outbursts
against his mother or his brother with disbelief: "Are you
so weak that you cannot command your own will?
Society will not tolerate this kind of indulgence in
barbarism. I certainly will not tolerate such behavior
toward your mother." Always Beanie had said, "Oh,
Winslow, he doesn't mean it." Always Lance had
thrown up his hands and soon enough flown off to war
where they tolerated barbarism perfectly well. Could
Lance have raped someone? Could any of Winslow's
own peers, Hayes, Ransom?
No. He didn't know any rapists. No, not even in
war. Of course, all the stories about the Germans,
Japanese, Italians. Terrible stories about the Russians as