to a village very close to where the Guild shuttle landed The priesthood, using this small fragment, maintained that Yueh met that Guild transport and saw Wanna alrve but under guard Having seen his beloved, Yueh agreed to betray Duke Leto, thinking thereby to free his wife It is impossible to confirm or deny the authenticity of the Guild fragment Bills of passage would have been easy for the government's religious bureaucracy to obtain or forge But of greater interest is the context within which those words appeared Perhaps die missing word was not "Gessent" but "Tleuax " A few scholars have suggested that the fifth person in that party, if indeed there ever was such a party, was not Wanna but a Tleilaxu face dancer, perhaps hired by the Harkonnens to deceive Yueh Yueh, who was not trained to detect face dancers, would never have suspected that he was being deceived 6 The Atreides view that Yueh's Imperial Conditioning failed and that he betrayed his Duke was shared by Alia during her youth and m the early days of her Regency However, toward the end her opinion seems to have shifted dramatically She is said to have confided to her personal guards that she regarded Yueh as a hero who died m defense of his Duke That she was "possessed" by the persona of Baron Harkonnen undoubtedly had much to do with this change of heart Thufir Hawat is also thought to have held the same view Shortly before his death as he traveled to Dune in the Harkonnen and Comno entourage, he told Irulan that he had suspected the Lady Jessica to have been the traitor Hawat apparently thought that Yueh was killed defending the family Atreides What, then, are we left with' Alia and Hawat are unreliable witnesses Muad'Dib never spoke publicly on the issue Irulan may have been too eager to please the Atreides The priesthood was cont-emed to preserve its religious authority Although sure of himself, Bronso was, at bottom, merely speculating and as an Ixian may have been generally hostile to the Atreides The Suk School apologists were eager only to be nd of the scandal of Yueh Even a retrospective analysis of Yueh s possible motnes is impossible given confusion about whether he believed Wanna to be alive or not Ultimately we come back to that very act of betrayal When did it occur7 What did Yueh actually do' What were his thoughts at the time7 And was there ever the alleged ' final confrontation" between Duke Leto and the Baron Harkonnen7 If indeed there was such a confrontation, not one witness lived long enough to record accurately and without bias that turning point of human history We can thus likely rule out Man's hypothesis that Yueh was a malicious traitor as well as the Snk interpretation that he was an assassin We are then left with three other possibilities insanity, incompetence, and love It has been argued that Yueh was insane, 507 driven to madness by inconsistent Harkonnen messages about Wanna This theory advanced by Leto Q's cnmmologist Duncan Idaho-11736 maintains that the Baron Harkonnen's Mcntat, Piter de Vnes, developed a method tu dnve Yueh mad and thereby defeat his Imperial Conditioning 7 There is clear evi dence that the Suk of those ancient times knew the dangers of insanity and privately warned all who purchased Suk doctors that the Imperial Conditioning against disloyalty could not be guaranteed if the doctor went insane The buyers were advised to be aware of telltale signs of insanity in Yueh's case there had been his depression on Caladan, noted earlier However, there were no signs of a relapse and no other signs of insanity in Yueh's behavior Nonetheless, Idaho maintained that Yueh s encounter with the face dancer Wanna shortly before his leaving the familiar Caladan for the inhospitable Dune was the shock that drove Yueh mad Yueh's actions after that point moved toward betray al not out of hate, but out of m insane doubt and manic paranoia Idaho laments that his former self the original Idaho, was so occupied with preparations for Dune that he failed to detect Yueh's insanity The chief counter evidence to this interpretation is that Yueh's insanity and his plotting with the Harkonnens escaped the notice of the entire Atreides household including Paul, Hawat the Mental, and Jessica the Bene Gessent adept That insanity could go unnoticed for so long seems unlikely On the other hand, that Leto II allowed Idaho to advance the view gives it some credibility in the light of Leto II s renowned quasi-ommscience The second hypothesis, incompetence, was proposed later by one of Stona's descendants, Ritah 8 Ritah maintained that Yueh was in deed desperate with the false hope that Wanna lived, but that he was perfectly sane, and that no one in the Atreides household suspected Yueh of treachery Ritah paints a picture of Yueh as a weak-willed confused, desperate and lonely man who would do anything in his power to learn the truth about Wanna Ritali's position is harsh, she scoffs at Yueh, saying that one did not have to be a Mental to know beyond doubt that Wanna would never be freed Further, Yaeh would have to have been a complete fool not to know that by his act of betrayal all manner of evil consequences would befall the Atreidcs Yueh according to Ritah should be held individual ly and personally accountable for the fall of Duke Leto, the seizure of Dune by the Harkonnens, the death of many loyal Atreides subjects and the permanent nun of the Suk School s reputation The third view, that Yueh acted out of love, albeit a desperate and perhaps raisguid ed passion, is based on suggestions found in the Journal ofNayla 9 One can see in Yueh as in Nayla a profound personal tension between conflicting imperatives To obey his Imperial Conditioning he should be loyal to mat person whot.