- D door behind her and done gone and left that child to find the body! When she dropped her hands in anger for Thelma's supposed conduct, she suddenly saw the woman's crumpled body, hidden a little behind James's, and realised that the murderess was dead too. But, thought Gussie suddenly, if both of them were dead maybe it was little Mary that had done it. Gone in there while they was sleepin' and dreamn' and stuck a ice pick in her daddy's ear, and then done somethin' else -1 don't know what - to Miz Thelma. Ohhh, that child! Kill her mama and daddy, and then go right back to bed, and sleep the sleep of the righteous! Gussie knew that little Maiy was not a particularly sweet little girl - but she wasn't a mean oae either and Gussie knew anyway, from experience, that it was the sweet ones that were always playing around in somebody else's belly with a butcher knife. Probably then it wasn't little Mary - maybe it was robbers, or an escaped con from the pen come back to settle a score with Officer James Shirley.
