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 with her word, that fear of far more than the terror already told, had come to her. "Why has he killed them? Why?"

"He told us this morning," I said. "He told Logan and me part of his plan and the reason he does these things. I don't know whether it's true, whether it's the real reason. But this is what he said. When he was a child, his father was murdered and the murderers were tried and freed—with cheers. His mother brought him up; he was devoted to her, adored her. She was killed by a man, who already had done murder and had been sentenced to imprisonment for life but was freed by a governor to do a politician a political favor. After the murder of his mother by this man, the governor who pardoned him was re-elected by a big majority. Bane said he stood with them when they were cheering the re-election on the street. It made him 'completely sane', he said; mad, of course, he means. What he told me would explain him, if it's true. I don't know anything at all as to whether it's true."

"I do!"

"What?"