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7. Terry hears of an unknown accident victim, hurries to the hospital but is stopped by a woman who claims to have identified the man as Mercer — "her fiance."
the SECOND Mrs. BURTON
let Mother Burton believe, either. Terry sighed. What a horrible thing for. Mother Burton, yet how easily she had been panicked into believing that Stan lay dead and buried. At least one thing Terry would never allow would be to have Mother Burton take the body back to Dickston without establishing, beyond any doubt at all, that this was Stan. Yet, now, alone in the hotel room, with no other human being capable of standing beside her to believe with her, Terry had her moment of weakness. ... If her suspicions of Farrell were wrong, if her exhuming of the body should prove — but there in the growing dusk a renewed strength came to her. No, she was not wrong. Tomorrow she had much to do, for time and faith and hope were on her side — tomorrow she would force an interview with Jewel MacLain's fiance, tomorrow she would order an official inspection of that poor body in Potter's Field, tomorrow she would somehow bring proof to bear that Farrell was deeply involved somehow with Stan's disappearance. All these things, God willing and with the strength He would somehow provide, she would find possible to do, and somewhere in that future of tomorrows she knew that Stan would be returned to her. Meanwhile, she had a job to do — a job of comforting Mother Burton, of running the newspaper as Stan would want it done, a job of finding the man she loved, her husband.
8. Mother Burton refuses to share Terry's stubborn belief that Stan isn't dead. Farrell's clever plot has convinced her that the hospital patient is a total stranger — and that the charred body (actually Farrell's henchman) found in the wreckage is her beloved son Stan.
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