Magrady Graham-Mabel Osbourne Summary

In this section the reader meets Magrady Graham, who loved Altgeld and wanted him elected Governor; Archibald Higbie, who loathed Spoon River and moved to Rome; Tom Merrit, who was killed by his wife's lover; Mrs. Merrit, who was blamed for her lover's killing her husband; Elmer Karr, who was forgiven by Spoon River after murdering Tom Merrit; Elizabeth Childers, who lost a child giving birth to it; Edith Conant, who lamented change; Charles Webster, who died and left his beloved behind bidding her to be brave; Father Malloy, who related the great past to the people of Spoon River; Ami Green, who had the face of a boy as long as he lived; Calvin Campbell, who wondered how a plant finds poison in the soil and becomes poison ivy; Henry Layton, who was half violent and half gentle...