[cradle of freedom]

I’ll have to look up that old story. Is that an Edgar Allen Poe story?

[firebrand]

There’s a plague, and the people with the means to do so hide in a castle, where they have lots of revelry including a masked ball. But someone with the plague gets in. As he is wearing a mask, they don’t realize he is not one of them.

Slaughter from the inside.