I asked Liddie Roten about Nelson and she teased me and said I didn't want to mess with him. She said he was a momma's boy and everybody called him New Testament on account his initials being N.T. and him acting so good and all. Liddie said his brother Carl was the one to catch, if he could be caught, cause he was already a foreman at the freight yard even though he'd only just turned twenty-one. But I knew better. I could look in them boys' eyes and tell.