"I don't know whether he killed them or not. They might have been
victims of the plague. But he sure ate them!"
"But pigs...."
"They'll eat a man, even domestic pigs will--and that fellow was wild."
Lynn looked as if she was going to be violently ill.
With a grimace of repugnance, Captain Bascom pushed through the front
door. Matt followed him inside. His eye lit on a yellowed corner of
paper on the mantel. He crossed swiftly to the fireplace.
"Look!" he said to the others, who were trooping inside. "It's a
newspaper! Maybe now we'll find out what's been happening!"
With gentle hands, Matt took the brittle paper from the mantel,
unfolded it as they crowded around.
SHEPHERDSVILLE GAZETTE
Shepherdsville, Ky.
Founded 1827
"Well," he said. "We're in Kentucky!" He glanced at the headlines.