This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Mr. Bledsoe and Mr. Roberts, the sheriff's deputy. Mr. Riggs, the former sheriff, says that he has always suspected malcom of being the mastermind behind the murder of Mr. Maddox. He says that Malcom arrived the day of the murder and that it was a coincidence that he arrived at the same time as the first murder. He also says that his uncle, Mr. Bull,