After she was let out, Miss June went back north to cereal town. And she never told who the other party in her husband's fooling around was. It was over twenty years before we found out. During that time more'n one woman was forced into bad times by the gossip. One young woman, a WWII widow, left Harper and moved back to her parents in Arkansas. Then in the late 60's Horace Buckmaster, who owned the local dry cleaners, got real sick and was in the hospital for several weeks. He got real weak and I guess he realized his hours was numbered, so it put him into a confessing mood. He told several people it was him that the doctor was messing around with. We couldn't believe it, but it did answer the question on why Miss June wouldn't say who the other one was. That wrapped up the first murder in Harper and the first time we had two mens acting around together.
At least that we knew about.
Tomorrow: Aftermath
Hollis' funny names:
Donny Brook is rowdy
Hung Chow is constipated
HUNG CHOW??... I'm still laughin, Hollis! That's wet humor, which unlike dry humor just smacks you in the face and gets all over you. Good one.
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