“But the rest of her wasn’t nowhere. And there wasn’t blood anywhere but in the living room and that room where the old lady was living. Finally, my grandpa, he tells the others. “Maybe Alvin took the rest of her out of the house and put her in the sewer or something. It wasn’t no secret that Alvin Miner’s mother-in-law was causin’ a little bit o’ friction in the Miner household, even if Alvin was a tolerant fellow, so his putting her somewhere disgusting didn’t seem too unlikely. Well, as Grandpa told it to my dad and later to me, he and the others was about to leave the house—they posted one of the men to stand guard, of course—when they remembered that they hadn’t seen Lucy Miner. I mean, they’d been calling for her, but when they seen the old lady’s arm, they kinda forgot about Lucy,

