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Valerie, holding in her arms the covered box containing the head of Judah Zachary, races in at this very moment. "Stop, you're killing the wrong man!" she declares. Valerie! cries Barnabas. Let's get on with the execution, insists Trask immediately. "No!" cries Valerie, "Quentin and Desmond are innocent--there is the man who is guilty--Gerard Stiles!" Stop him! someone yells; a guard restrains Gerard. I beg you to listen to me! cries Valerie. I will listen to you, Judge Vail assures her--everyone stay right where they are until this matter is explained--and Mr. Stiles, he adds, you must refrain from any further demonstrations. Valerie places the head on a nearby flat surface and pulls off the cover. "She's insane, Your Honor!" insists Gerard. That is for me to decide, says the Judge--you have made a serious charge against this young man. And I can prove it, your honor, says Valerie.[/spoiler]
Willie hangs a cross on the cell door. Barnabas stares at him. Willie begs him not to look at him like that--say something, anything! (he was just begging Maggie to talk to him under eerily similar circumstances.) Willie tells Barnabas I hear the dogs, too, and know what you must be going through--I've got to keep you here, safe. "Please, Willie," begs Barnabas, "let me go free. As your master, I cannot command you now, I beg you--I beg you to let me go free." Willie insists he can't. Barnabas begs him again. "Can you ask for more?" Willie assures him I would do it if it would set you free, but I can't. "I beg--I beg," repeats Barnabas, "listen to them howling--but the true howling is in my blood, tearing at my heart. Please, Willie, please." (this is so hard to hear. Frid is just marvelous!) No, repeats Willie.[/spoiler]
George and Dave exit Willie's room, looking grim, and at first you wonder if Willie didn't tell them WHAT he's afraid of, as in his former vampire employer. Dave and George tell Julia and Barnabas that Willie is hopelessly insane. His mind has snapped--apparently he's been deranged all along. Now he's in his room, babbling incoherently about being afraid of a voice from a grave. So, Willie is guilty, the case is now closed, and Willie will be sent to an institution for the criminally insane. Barn and Julia express their sorrow over hearing this.[/spoiler]