LETTERS: REWARD FOR FREEDOM

To the editor:

Written upon hearing of the acquittal of O.J.:

Readers of "Don Quixote" will recall a passage when the knight and his squire meet a gang of prisoners in chains with guards. The knight talks briefly with the unhappy visitors, each of whom proclaims his innocence. Then he sets upon the guards with his sword, and as they retreat he quickly unchains the prisoners. His reward is that the newly unchained rob their liberator and others who are nearby, beat up everyone and scamper away.

"See," a bystanders says, "you shouldn't have freed them."

And the would-be knight answers, "I did the right thing. I looked upon their sorrows and not their rogueries."

PETER HILTY

Cape Girardeau