"I don't care. Go back to one of your other wives."
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After all the mystery, this lays out the sin a little bit too obviously. Which is why it makes me think Lew Basnight has been convicted by his community of every sin the gossips could think of. So he's a sodomite and a gambler and a tippler of alcoholic beverages and a polygamist and an atheist and any other thing you could be in 1893 which would make the neighbors raise their eyebrows and become green with envy that you were brave enough to buck social convention and be your own person. Which, of course, you'd have to be punished for because how dare you find some sense of personal freedom and liberty without consequence!
Anyway, we know at least one rumor is that Lew is a polygamist. I have a feeling Lew's "sin" is different for every person, being the most offensive thing to each of them personally. So his wife believes he has other wives. His gay co-worker, Wensleydale, believes Lew is a sodomite. Women in intimidating hats probably think he's a rake and a roustabout. Oriental therapists believe he's a hallucination. None of this yet explains how Lew Basnight found himself in the detective business though!
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