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concluded, after a series of speculations, that his luck,
bad as it had been, could have been worse. These
speculations did not question the justice of what he had
elected to do to Limus Barnum, or had been forced to
do to John Haig, any more than he would have brooded
over whether or not he should have killed a spider that
had bitten him, or deflected a rock thrown at his head.
But Maynard Henry did have a few theories about
what had happened since the shooting; about, for
example, the feelings about Judith Haig that had
motivated Winslow Abernathy to protect (and then to
blackmail) him. Yet, some of Henry's conclusions were
based on false premises. It was not true that Judith Haig
had told the lawyer everything, and that she and
Abernathy were conscious conspirators.
She had told him no more than he had repeated to
Henry. Also false was the younger man's immediate
assumption, when told that a bullet had been fired into
Barnum's face, that Judith had held the gun there and
squeezed the trigger in violent revenge, in uncontrollable
disgust and despair. He understood the phenomenon,
having seen other corpses shot at, but he thought the