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many horror stories and had heard of so many others
that in fact the sight of Mrs. Haig, alive with eyes and
ears and all four limbs, propped up on snowy pillows
with watchful attendants around her, was not especial
cause for grief. And husbands were often killed. Bruises
would heal. Chin had not been told of the rape, but
rape was not uncommon, and after all not as bad for an
adult woman as for a child, and not as bad when a
single rapist, and after all there were far worse things
than even rape.
Some of them she had looked at. Chin Lam Henry
was not a particularly callous young woman, but her
perspective had not been trained on the sanctity of the
individual and that individual's right to freedom from
violation and to freedom from misfortune, as had the
perspectives of the Americans, Judith Haig and Ruth
Deeds.
Last night at 1:00 A.M. (presuming upon, he said,
his age and her youth), Otto Scaper had phoned Dr.
Deeds to ask if she would save an old man's life by
driving to Argyle to check on a patient they had just
called him about. Because, he growled, if he didn't get a