"They deserve it. What would you do to your kids if they joined a stampede?"
Jerry had to laugh. "The same thing, I guess. But what's all the celebrating about? Is it the local Fourth of July?"
"No. But I have a funny feeling that in years to come it might be. Your patient started it."
"Tabio?"
"President Anibal Tabio. He decided not to die today. He got out of bed and addressed the opening session of the Congress and called for war on the Axis."
"You're kidding me again, Matt."
"The hell I am. I was there. I saw him myself."
"But he's paralyzed, Matt."
"He spoke from a wheel chair." He told Jerry about the speech, and as they walked through the dense crowds toward a restaurant, he translated some of the signs carried by the people who swarmed on all sides of her.
"Abajo el Eje—that's down with the Axis. And that one says Long live the United Nations. Mueran los Falangistas—death to the Falangists."