The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, racism, child death, sexual violence, rape, death by suicide, and animal cruelty and death.

Four days after Good Stab’s last confession, one of Arthur’s neighbors, a man named Chance Aubrey, dies by suicide. Chance died after learning that the Titanic, which he had been obsessed with, had sunk in the Atlantic Ocean.

Dove is also found dead on the railroad tracks. On the morning that Arthur writes in his journal, Livinius Clarkson goes missing, driving fear throughout the city. Arthur wants to tell Sheriff Doyle what he knows about Good Stab, but he fears that the sheriff won’t believe the fantastical aspects of the story.

Arthur locks himself in his chapel, consoled by the ash cakes another neighbor has gifted him. Arthur cites the widespread fear to explain why he has already eaten nearly all of them. The cakes came with a buckskin pouch. Arthur uses it as a cover for his journal, though he becomes paranoid that Good Stab will break into the locked chapel and find the journal. 

Earlier in the week, a sex worker from the brothel visited to reclaim Cordelia, but Arthur refused to open the door for her.