The Two Coins

Lee Berman · 13 Aug 2010, 16:59 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:59:37 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Two Coins
Message-ID: <SNT123-W39925AA3B8CD726A03DCF6CF980 at phx.gbl>

>Roy C. Lackey- BTW, if I had to guess who had dropped a false coin at the play that night,
>it would be Hildegrin. Somewhere, IIRC, he said that he had been keeping an
>eye on Sev for Vodalus, and Vodalus was shown to pass bad coins.

I agree with Roy. Hildegren is a prime suspect. Perhaps better than Hethor because he is 
intimately associated with Vodalus at the beginning of the story. Hethor is only tangentially
associated with Vodalus and at the end of the story.

The one reason I like Hethor as a candidate better is that he has more potential for being a
"big picture" stellar-level player in the game. Why would Wolfe devote so much attention with
the false coin to ultimately point only to Hildegren? (unless I am underestimating the Badger's
importance?)

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