Rosalie Disappears Things had happened in Tinkletown that night.

Alf Reesling finally found some one who would listen to his story.

He told the minister and the minister alarmed the town.

To be brief, Alf admitted that 'Rast Little was at his house in the outskirts of the village, laid up with a broken arm and a bad cut in the top of his head.
"He came crawlin' up to my place about six o'clock in the mornin'," explained Alf, "an' I took the poor cuss in.

That's what I wanted to tell Anderson, but the old rip wouldn't listen to me.