Chapter 73

She was an intelligent woman, Katherine. Perhaps I have done her less than justice in this narrative. She was strange during that time, more frightened than she wanted us to know, and the result was that she withdrew herself. I think from the time Jim took the stand at the trial, maybe even before it, she knew that he was protecting somebody. “You say that you saw his white shirt front? What do you mean by that?” “Just what I say. A white shirt front.” “He wore no vest?” “I can’t say. I had only an impression of ev…