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The Masons, mother or son, or mother and son??

Opportunity was obvious.

Motive.

Here, too, the cause to hate lay well back in the years.

But bitterness had more cause to remain, even increasingly to corrode.

With the boy, particularly.

The boy had, apparently -- if Mrs. MacReady was right in what she had told Mullins -- only in recent months been forced to give up college, to work as a busboy.

Seeing the man he blamed for this made much of -- youth and bitterness and --