The Whole Town Swore My Fiancée Ran From Our Wedding — I Found Her in the Woods, and I Believed Her
That is where you will find your answer.” And that single question kept me awake through the whole of that long night.
I have carried Mrs.
Mabel’s question with me ever since, because it was more than good detective sense — it was a whole way of seeing, and it has kept me from being fooled more than once in the years since. Don’t ask who could do it.
Ask who stood to lose everything. The town had been asking the first question, or rather not asking any question at all, just accepting the easy story handed to them.
And the easy story is almost always the one that requires no one powerful to be guilty, because the easy story is comfortable, and comfort is exactly what a good lie is designed to provide.
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