This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem tells the story of a young man who is kidnapped by a lunatic. The young man, who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, is taken in by the madman, who tells him that he will kill him if he tries to harm him. The old man tells the young man that he is a traitor and that he should go to hell for his crimes. The two men part, and the old man asks the madman why he is back. The madman says that he has something to hide and apologizes for not telling him sooner.