CHAPTER 18
After reaching Hillsville, I had absolute resolve in two matters.
First I would be incessant in finding who the tract dispensing murderer was, because I knew he could be the key to the entire story.
While I was gone to Richmond, it was as if summer had arrived and the fields and forests had taken on a refreshing new life. I hoped this would be an omen for a refreshing new life for me, as my second resolution was to ask Nellie Wisler to be my wife.
My intuition told me that Elmo Brim was not the murderer, but I did feel like he knew a whole lot more than he had revealed to me. The first day back, I rode into Hillsville and began making inquiries as to the whereabouts of Brim. I was directed to a young man from Galax named Norm Williams who was staying for a period with his
