Where's Emma Jean?

Now this wounded soldier with the crutches what collected stuff to send to the boys overseas kept coming back to Harper for about a year. And Emma Jean tried real hard to get skinny just for him. I reckon she got down to just over 200 hundred pounds. Her mama kept wanting to take her to Jackson to see a specialist 'cause she figured Emma Jean had some mystery disease what was eating the pounds off her. But Emma Jean just told her mama she were trying to get healthy so she could take better care of the old lady. That satisfied her mama for a while. Now it turned out the soldier were named Charles Boyer, like the movie star, and Emma Jean were ready to do pretty much what ever he wanted. She worked real hard to get him clothes and stuff to send to Europe and the Pacific. He told her he could get promoted to captain and it would make his life a lot easier if he could beat the other soldier collectors accumulating stuff. Emma Jean talked people out of things like watches and rings and even family Bibles, all to give to her hero, Charles Boyer. Then all of a sudden the soldier stopped coming to Harper. After about a month or so Emma Jean just flat out disappeared. She must have run off in her car 'cause it were missing too.