False Accusations He caught a glimpse of the ‘killed list” and saw nothing. Without any thought he peered over at it again and saw the familiar name ‘Brently Mallard’ appeared on the paper. He didn’t believe what he saw; he felt shocking pains in his heat. Richard had been a good friend of Brently so he knew he had to tell someone. His first thought was Mrs. Mallard, Mr. Mallard’s wife, but he decided he couldn’t break the news to her himself. He settled on carefully telling Josephine, whom was Mrs. Mallard’s sister. It was tough enough for him to tell her, and now they were both going to pass the news to Mrs. Mallard. As they approached the door, Richard’s heart was racing. He reached for the door handle, sweaty, shaky palms. Josephine
