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assassiné." The crowd applauded rather listlessly.

He shook out the ensign with elaborate deliberation. She saw again the posters in the history
museum, Remember December 7, with the colors coming down in unmistakable, unbelievable surrender.
This is utterly ridiculous, she thought, ridiculous, pointless, futile. Such an allegedly logical people
confusing cause and effect. Indulging in sympathetic magic, making the tableau to induce the events
leading up to what it represented.

The man threw the flag on the pavement and smeared his foot over the field of stars. "Oh, you mustn't
do that," she cried, in a high, little girl's voice of shock at impropriety. "You mustn't!"

She hurried forward and snatched up the bunting, clutching it to her. The kicking did not really hurt
intolerably. Sol had been hurt much, much worse than this. Only her jaw, and her eye, and now her
stomach …




The End
© 1961, 1989 by the Estate of Ward Moore;

first appeared in Gent; reprinted by

permission of the author's Estate and the

Estate's agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.