The next morning, Mr. Bledsoe arrives at the sheriff's office. He tells the sheriff that his wife Jane has been murdered and that the town has become a "garbage dump for outsiders" . The sheriff is shocked and angry at the news of his wife's death. He says that he has been honored to protect the values of the town and serve justice, but that he will go to the "hell for this" , because he has not changed in his determination to protect "the windtale style of justice " , which he says has been "meaningless" in the twenty years since he murdered his wife