We found him sitting at the organ, exactly where I expected to find him. He never seemed to be far from it, and when he saw the three of us coming toward him, any remaining fight went out of him.

"I did it," Ian Rudge said. "I killed her." Took me a second to register the fact he'd dropped his stutter.

Affectations. I hated them.

Jill nodded, tipping her hat while stepped back and let her do the job she was born to do, the sheriff's badge already ...