Marshal read the fax twice, slowly, sorting out his feelings. The Marshal Streider endowed lecture series—a memorial that would extend into perpetuity. Who wouldn’t be pleased? The perfect self-esteem insurance policy. Years from now, whenever he felt diminished, he could think of his endowed lecture series. Or fly to Mexico City for the lecture and rise, reluctantly, hand held aloft, turning slowly and modestly to acknowledge the applause of a grateful audience.
