We decided that Ted had been dependent upon Wyck for a livelihood; that Wyck, who apparently had commenced to go insane about a year before, had bullied his bastard offspring into doing service as a chauffer and guard; that Muriel had been forced to become a technical assistant in his experiments; that the mothers of the two monsters had been the immediate victims; that neither Ted nor Muriel had known the ghastly nature of the work in which they were implicated until the monsters were about to be born; that Ted, in love with one of the victims, had been enraged to the point of murder when he learned of her fate; that Muriel might or might not have been his accomplice in the murder, but probably had been at most a passive tool. The admittedly improbable thesis that human monsters could be deliberately produced, and that they had been in this case, was strengthened by the fact that Daisy had discovered hospital records to show that Wyck had several times been called out Alton Center to attend Lucy Bennett in her pregnancy, and by our former knowledge that Sarah Mullin had been serving as a maid in Wyck’s own house up until about ten weeks of the birth of the monster she had carried in her womb.
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