Time suggests that the alliance’s existence made rumors necessary.
James Poniewozik—who was convinced by the Gervase-is-the-winner “evidence,” too—argues that the alliance’s picking people off one by one “could be as dangerous as having people knowing the winner,” so a diversion was created.

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