I guess I feel sorry for the colonel and the abused boy Shaye Langtree, who is still trying to win the approval of a man whose brain glows with the venereal consequences of a profligate life. The irony is that my Puritan ancestors bred many a woods colt like Carleton Hayes. They hid their anger and their lust, and groped the innocent and killed the Indians so they did not have to kill themselves. As I walk toward my friends and the situational choices they have made, I am possessed by a terrible fear. Maybe this is because of the penalty I will have to pay for taking human life. But please do
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