station. He was thrown into turmoil—not
just at the prospect of discovery but also
and more crucially at the question of
what to do about his false papers. Hallie
writes:
His identity card gave his name as
Béguet, and they would ask him if this
was indeed true. Then he would have
to lie in order to hide his identity. But
he was not able to lie; lying,
especially to save his own skin, was
“sliding toward those compromises
that God had not called upon me to
make,” he wrote in his
autobiographical notes on this
incident. Saving the lives of others—