"Yeh?" Buck questioned.
"Yes—Grandpa Johnson's dead and Clem Herndon's boy and Ann Rutledge."
Buck was interested now.
"Ann Rutledge dead? No!"
"Yeh—she's dead."
"Abe's gal."
"Dead and buried out near Concord."
"Poor old Abe. Take it hard, did he?"
"Nobody knows. He ain't saying nothin'."
"They say he went crazy for a time," Kit Parsons remarked.