Ben nodded, face still covered. He sniffed, and finally sat up, face wet. "I wish you'd have told me, Elijah. If I'd have known... I thought he was stealin'. I'd always known he was... at war with himself. That som't was troubling him, but I never knew what it was. He'd never talk to me, no matter how I tried... 'E told me when it was all too late..."