Summary

Ed and Jim interviewed Charlene Bryant, who was hostile at first, suggesting that she had a reason to be afraid of them because they were Black. She then became calmer and answered their questions, explaining that Wheat could not have known the dead Black man because he had never left the house. Granny C, who had been silent since she saw the Black man, screamed when she saw Ed and Jim, eventually seeming to say the word “sorry” (70).

Ed and Jim returned to the Dinah, where Gertrude commented that she had heard there was a “Black wizard or ghost” (73) in town. Jim asked Gertrude if she was Black and she replied that she was. While they were in the restaurant, a television news report informed them of a man named Lester William Milan having been beaten to death in his home in Chicago...