Accused (Amish Romance Mystery) (Amish Secret Widows' Society #3) by Samantha Price

would uncover.”
    “Be gut if he could’ve told you everything from the start. Would’ve saved a lot of time,” Emma said.
    “Don’t you think it would’ve been hard for him to tell a total stranger everything? It was awkward at first when I tried to explain who I was and he knew nothing about the letters.” Angela giggled. “He must have thought I was quite mad until he figured out that Jacob wrote the letters.”
    “I guess so. He seems to like you.”
    “You think he does?”
    “I’m sure he does. He’d be doing well to have a fine woman like you as his fraa . He would well know it too.”
    The next morning after breakfast Emma said to Angela, “I’ll quickly go to Wil’s haus to use his phone and have the widows meet together this afternoon.”
    Emma wrapped her black shawl around her shoulders and walked the five minutes to Wil’s haus.
    “Emma, I didn’t expect to see you this morning.” Wil stuck his head around the barn door when he saw Emma approach the haus.
    “Hello, Wil. I’ve just come by to borrow your phone if I may. I just need to phone Elsa-May for a minute.”
    “Sure, come in.”
    The phone was in the barn on the back wall. Emma was sure to keep her voice low so Wil would not ask her questions when she got off the phone.
    “Elsa-May, can you organize for the widows to all meet this afternoon? I have news of the witness's identity and we have a theory on who the dead man might be.”
    “Who was he?”
    “Robert seems to think that it just might be Jacob’s biological father; although he has no idea of the man’s name. According to Angela, Robert knows that the witness is Jacob’s biological ant. She even told Jacob that she’s his real daed’s schweschder. The police don’t even know the connection.”
    Elsa-May was silent for a time.
    “Are you still there, Elsa-May?” Emma asked.
    “ Jah , I’m still here. I’m trying to work things out. Did she think that she saw Jacob’s daed kill him or did she make the whole thing up, or did she see someone else kill him?”
    Emma said, “Maybe she wasn’t at the scene of the crime at all and didn’t see anyone. She could have just made the whole thing up.”
    “What reason would she have to make it up? Did she have something against Ross?” Elsa-May asked.
    “Robert told Angela that the schweschder was talking to Jacob for a time every afternoon as he walked home from skul. Ross found out and warned her to stay away. He didn’t want anyone from the outside world talking to his boy.”
    “Okay, that might have made her annoyed with him,” Elsa-May said.
    “ Jah, but annoyed enough to have him charged for murder?” Emma glanced up to see if Wil looked like he was listening.
    “That’s what we’ll have to find out. I’ll have Crowley come to the meeting as well. He’ll need to know what we’ve found out,” Elsa-May said.
    “ Jah, okay.” Emma looked up to see Wil looking over at her. She remembered she told Wil she’d only be quick. “I’ll see you this afternoon, Elsa-May.” Emma hung up the phone.
    “Everything all right, Emma?”
    Emma walked toward Wil. “ Jah , everything is fine.”
    “You know, you can tell me things. If there’s any kind of trouble, I’d like to know about it.”
    Emma shook her head. “I know you would and if there was any trouble, or if I was in any kind of trouble, you would be the first to know.”
    Wil smiled revealing his straight white teeth. “You had breakfast yet?”
    “ Jah , I have. I’d better get back to Angela. I told her I’d only be a little while.”
    “I never see much of you when you have visitors.” Wil walked toward her and put his strong arm around her back.
    Emma giggled. “I hardly ever have visitors.”
    “ Kumm , I’ll walk you back home.” They held hands until they got out of the barn and then Emma broke her hand gently from his grip. She did not feel it proper to have too much physical contact until they were married; even though she