Scandal On Plum Island by Marian E. Lindberg

Author:Marian E. Lindberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: East End Press
Published: 2020-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

As the prosecution’s case neared its end, the accusers had less and less to say and the jurors asked fewer questions. Were they tired, zoning out, or becoming inured to the accusations, like spectators at a bullfight getting used to seeing blood by the sixth gored bull?

Private Henry Fairey, the next witness, never spoke to Mills. Fairey’s boss, Barrett, told him to see Mayes and “tell him what you know.” This was what Fairey said he knew: “I couldn’t say the date, but about the latter part of August [1913], I was in the corral and the Major came in to get his horse . . . I went in to help him put the saddle on and he pinched me in the leg.”

Mayes asked if there was lewd talk, and Fairey disappointed him: “He just said something about women, pretty nice to be with a nice girl, or something that way.”

If Fairey had put it differently in an earlier discussion, he was perhaps having second thoughts, like the men in the rowboat who had fled—though it seems Fairey was another accuser with grounds for a grudge. According to Ben, Fairey had requested a recommendation for a promotion that Ben declined to provide, telling Fairey that he was too young and inexperienced for the job.15

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