Ordinary Grace

The sheriff brings Morris Engdahl in for questioning. Engdahl admits to being at the party in Sibley Park and getting in a fight with another boy there. He then says that after the party he went to “the old Mueller place on Dorn road,” where he and a girl, Judy Kleinschmidt, “kind of made a night of it” (161). The sheriffs want Engdahl to stick around until they can talk to Kleinschmidt, adding that they will try to release him in time for his shift at the cannery. When Frank, Jake and Nathan arrive home from the police station, Officer Doyle is waiting for them in the drive. In Doyle’s possession is the gold necklace Ariel was wearing the night he disappeared. Doyle says it was found “in the possession of Warren Redstone” (163).

Gus and Nathan go with Doyle to the sheriff’s office. Ruth is in shock from the trauma of Ariel missing, and almost burns herself with her own cigarette when she forgets that she’s smoking. Karl and Emil Brandt arrive to the Drum house. Frank relates the news of Doyle finding Ariel’s necklace in Warren Redstone’s possession.