Greene builds suspense by keeping Trevor's (or T's) plan a secret from the reader until the middle of the story. T. is a man of few words; as Greene writes, his "words were almost confined to voting 'Yes' or 'No' to the plan of operations proposed each day by Blackie." For a while, T. goes along with Blackie's plans, and then he suddenly suggests the plan to take apart Old Misery's house in a very subtle way, while "he looked at the ground, as...
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