What made someone a good person?
When a girl no longer received your tenderness, you were a good person.
When you could bear a loss yourself for the sake of someone else, you were a good person...
There were many definitions of a good person. Good people seemed to suffer a great deal, because they were always getting hurt, always getting hurt! But there was another kind of good person who was also a good person. Such people did not get hurt as often, because eliminating evil completely—the resolve to eradicate evil had never been so firm, and even if evil escaped legal punishment, it could not escape the judgment of justice—was also the mark of a good person!
Yes, Mr. Truman was that kind of good person. His military background had given him a clear sense of right and wrong. Right was right, and wrong was wrong.
The Duncan Family had done far too many evil things. What they had done was enough to get every one of them executed a hundred times over!
But now, owing to certain needs of the Federal Government—
Mainly, they felt that enough was enough and did not want any more secrets to leak out. At the same time, they needed someone to draw fire, so in a sense, they had compromised.
They had tacitly approved the Duncan Family's plan to flee overseas, allowing them to board a ship with ease and head for another country!
That was not eliminating evil completely! Those who had made these decisions were not good people!
Watching these people leave and continue living like members of the Upper Class in another place, thinking of all those they had once harmed and of the things they had done that were more terrifying than anything demons could do—should they