So tell what happened on this day of this year of our Lord and nothing more! You people almost had me scared myself for a minute.

Now, get out of here and let a legal light shine without any more clouds for a few minutes." They departed then and traveled down the stairs with far more spring in their step than when they had entered.

Late that night, as they were engaged at their usual occupation of relating the varied happenings of the day to Mother Howard, there came a knock at the door.
Instinctively, Fairchild bent toward her: "Your name 's out of this--as long as possible." She smiled in her mothering, knowing way.

Then she opened the door, there to find a deputy from the sheriff's office.
"They 've impaneled a jury up at the courthouse," he announced.

"The coroner wants Mr.Fairchild and Mr.Harkins to come up there and tell what they know about this here skeleton they found." It was the expected.