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"You don't understand, son," he said again. "You can't understand
that
kind
of violence." He offered me his hand and I shook
it.
"Good luck, son," he said. He was smiling as he started to move
away.
"Mr. Faulkner," I said quickly. "That little girl on skates - who
fell - did you see her?"
"Yes, son," he said, "I saw her. Goodbye."
I watched him walk to the fountain and stop to listen
to
the folk–
singer. He filled and lighted his pipe and walked around the fountain
to cross the street directly in front of the Washington Arch. He stood
looking up at the top of the monument, and then, with a playful
military bearing, he marched rather than walked through the arch and
disappeared in the crowds along lower Fifth Avenue.
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