Yes--I shouldn't wonder." Well, they puts this and that together, and they agrees that whatever happened to make things hard to explain must of happened on that day that Prentiss McMakin met the doctor in the bar-room, and didn't shoot him, as he had made his brags he would.

Must of happened between the time that afternoon when Prentiss McMakin left the doctor and the time Colonel Tom went out to see his sister and found she had went.

Must of happened somehow through Prent McMakin.
We goes home with Colonel Tom that night.

And the next day all three of us is on our way to Athens, Indiany, where I had seen Miss Lucy at..