"Then folks began to ask where was that woman, and they found out
by comparing notes that nobody had seen her since the man went
away; but three or four women remembered that she had told them
that she thought of taking the child and going to Boston to visit
her folks, so when they hadn't seen her around, and the house shut,
they jumped to the conclusion that was where she was. They were
the neighbours that lived right around her, but they didn't have
much to do with her, and she'd gone out of her way to tell them
about her Boston plan, and they didn't make much reply when she
did.
"Well, there was this house shut up, and the man and woman missing
and the child. Then all of a sudden one of the women that lived
the nearest remembered something. She remembered that she had
waked up three nights running, thinking she heard a child crying
somewhere, and once she waked up her husband, but he said it must
be the Bisbees' little girl, and she thought it must be. The child
wasn't well and was always crying. It used to have colic spells,
especially at night. So she didn't think any more about it until
this came up, then all of a sudden she did think of it.
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