As we were starting, this morning, Hillyer whispered to me: “Keep this
news from Walker until you think it safe and not likely to disturb his
mind and check his improvement: the ancient crime he spoke of was really
committed--and by his cousin, as he said. We buried the real criminal
the other day--the unhappiest man that has lived in a century--Flint
Buckner. His real name was Jacob Fuller!” There, mother, by help of me,
an unwitting mourner, your husband and my father is in his grave. Let
him rest.