Summary

Jo eats her breakfast, frustrated that she has not found any evidence of who the Harmons’ killer might be.. Later that day, Lymp comes home with a surprise—he has taken and passed a polygraph test. When Jo calls Herschel to tell him the news, Herschel unkindly reminds her that polygraphs are not always completely accurate, then warns Jo to look out for any signs of rage in Lymp, because Jessie Earl was often cruel. Jo questions Herschel about why he has such distrust for Jessie Earl, and Herschel reveals that Jessie Earl ran their family out of town when he and Jo were still children. Herschel explains that he and another boy, Claude, had gone into the woods to make out with one another when they encountered Jessie Earl with a white woman. Jessie Earl cursed at them, quoted some homophobic passages...