Pop Walters waited impatiently as Mavis Haggarty left the phone to call Leroy Duval. Pop had been frightened by Sheriff Ellis' visit, by the Sheriff's avowed intention to check thoroughly into Walter's past. It was something Duval ought to know. After what seemed like an eternity to the anxiously waiting Pop, he heard Duval's approaching steps, and could hear him faintly speaking to Mavis, as the door closed.