Slowly she felt the blood recede from her face, prickling her kin down below her neck.

That name locked her thought.
"Ellen, it's a mighty queer story--too queer to be a lie," went on Sprague.

"Now you listen! Evarts got this from Ted Meeker.

An' Ted Meeker heerd it from Greaves, who didn't die till the next day after Jean Isbel knifed him.

An' your dad shot Ted fer tellin' what he heerd....