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/ THE BARÓN, \ ' WELL, HE WENT \ INTO A RAGĘ. THERE WAS AN INCIPENT, YOU SEE, WHEN HE WAS BUT A CHILP. AN UNCLE OF HIS,

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X HE WAS \ ' CAST OUT OF THE ^N FAMlLy ANP SHIPPEP OFF TO THE NEW WORLP, NEVER TO BE SPOKEN OF EVER AGAIN. I WAS ONLy A MAIP AT THE TIME BUT I REMEMBER, _v IT WAS A HUGE / V SCANPAL. y

THE BARÓN HAS X HAP A GREAT HATREP FOR SUCH PEN/IANTS EVER SINCE. HE WOULP NEVER ALLOW SUCH THINGS TO BE SAIP ABOUT / K HIS OWN SON.

THE POOR CHICO. HE WAS ALWAyS A GENTLE BO% COPPLEP By HIS MOTHER, PERHAPS. TOO INNOCENT, ANP IGNORANT OF THE EVILS OF THE WORLP. , HE WOULP HAVE / BEEN EASy PREy / FOR PEVIANT / _w SINNERS.

PIP ALEJANPRO EVER EXHIBIT SUCH...TENPENCIES BEFORE HE LEFT FOR , V UNIYERSITy?

WELL, TRUTH

/ BE TOLP, I ALWAyS \ SUSPECTEP...NOT THAT HE ¹ EVER PIP ANyTHING IMPROPER, MINP y0U. HE WAS ALWAyS A GOOP BOy, VERy WELL BEHAVEP, ALWAyS TRyiNG SO HARP TO , V LIVE UP TO HIS FATHER'S / EXPECTATIONS. / \

^ ANP ^ PIP HE? LIVE UP TO THE BARÓN'S EXPECTATIONS?

THE BARÓN CAN BE VER/ PEMANPING, ANP RIGHTLy SO. ALEJANPRO IS HIS ONLy SON, ANP MUST BECOME STRONGER, A _v FORCEFUL MAN LIKE HIS FATHER, IF HE j V IS TO INHERIT ANP MANAGE sj THEESTATE.    '

^ BUT ALEJANPRO, HE X TOOK MORĘ AFTER HIS MOTHER, QUIET ANP POCILE. ANP HE WAS ALWAyS SO SMALL, POOR LAMB. THE BARONESA ALWAyS POTĘP ON , HIM, BUT THE BARÓN SAyS SHE a ^ MAPĘ HIM SOFT.

' OH, NO, I PON'T THINK...WHAT ABOUT THE EyES? ANP WOULPN'T FATHER POMINGUEZ KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS A PEMON? ^

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IT SEEMEP ^ f TO ME HE WAS... 1 UNHAPPy, THE yEARS ’ BEFORE HE LEFT FOR UNIVERSITX I HAP HOPEP HE WOULP GROW UP ANP BECOME HIS OWN MAN ONCE HE WAS AWA% BUT IT SEEMS THINGS _k ONLy GOT WORSE. /

PONA ROSA, PO X ^r yOU BELIEVE ALEJANPRO WAS ^N TRULy POSSESSEP By A PEMON? IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THE BARÓN IS SIMPLy BLAMING HIS SON'S UNPESIRABLE TRAITS ON A . V SUPERNATURAL CAUSE? A