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doesn’t necessarily make it right to do so. That would be like if you found yourself alone in a building where hundreds of gold bars were stored, and knew with an absolute certainty that you could take a couple of them and no one would ever know.” He leaned his head down a bit more, so that he could look her in the eye more directly. “It would still be stealing, now, wouldn’t it?”

THREE
    “ I t just isn’t fair,” Mathers said. She was sitting on the couch in her apartment, leaning back against Major Arthur Newman. “Foster is almost certainly telling the truth, but there is absolutely no way that I’m going to be able to save him from being sentenced to die. Makes me sick to think that I chose to become part of a system that can so easily and arbitrarily decide to destroy a man for doing exactly what was right.”
    Newman caressed her cheek with the backs of his fingers. “You didn’t make that choice, Abby,” he said. “You just got handed the bag to hold. The problem is that your client, Foster, had the bad luck to be serving under a psychopath who happened to be the son of a powerful man. Sometimes, no matter how unfair it is, there’s just no way to win.”
    “And how am I supposed to live with that? Can you tell me how I’m supposed to sleep at night, knowing that a good and innocent man went to death row because he did the right thing? Sergeant Foster shouldn’t be standing court-martial, he should be given a medal.” She sat forward suddenly, and spun to look him in the eye. “What if I went to the press? What if I leaked the story of how a congressman can railroad the man who stopped his son from committing even more horrible crimes in the future? Maybe I can get just enough public pressure to at least keep Foster out of the execution chamber.”
    Newman was shaking his head. “Abby, it won’t work,” he said. “First of all, Congressman Gibson stands a fair chance of being the next president, if he does decide to run. He’s popular, and from what I’ve heard so far, all the speculation polls are finding him to be a very viable and likely candidate. The press is not going to go up against a man like that, not anybody who could get you serious attention, anyway. But even more than that, they would trace the leak back to you and you could be facing a court-martial of your own. If you decide to keep fighting for the Sergeant and end up losing your own career, well, you can console yourself by remembering that it’s better to sacrifice your career than your soul.” He pulled her hand up to his lips and kissed it. “Besides, you might decide you like being a stay-at-home mom, and I’ve never been all that excited about having a wife who works.”
    “Art, be serious! I’ve got to think this through, I can’t just lay down on this.”
    “Abby, sweetheart, I’m being completely serious,” Newman said. “You cannot win, that much is just true. No matter what you do, your Sergeant Foster is going to end up dead over this. Your CO knows it, Sergeant Foster knows it, and you know it. What you have got to do, if you’re going to survive this at all, is detach yourself from it. Stop thinking of Foster as a client, and just think of him as a casualty of war.”
    Mathers leaned back against him again, and he could tell that she was crying softly. He had often wondered if she really had the hardness of heart that it took to be a good lawyer, and it seemed this case was going to be the one that broke her. Of that, he was absolutely certain, so he simply put his arms around her and let her cry.
    Sometimes, that’s just all a man can do. The following morning, she would be walking into that court-martial, and he wasn’t sure whether she would even be the same person when she came back out. They ended up falling asleep right there on the couch, huddled together in Mathers’ desperate need for human contact, and only woke when the sun came through the window to tell them that it was time, once