MITCHELL BOY: THE STORY COMPLETES ITSELF

By now most of you know that Steve-o Mitchell drove out to the Hartley place Tuesday evening, and that by Thursday the word had come back through the CWA — via Sandra Hartley, who chose her words the way you choose clothes for a funeral — that they'd had a chat with the Mitchell boy about work arrangements.

She did not elaborate. She didn't need to. This town has been…