Detective Elbert Wainwright was having second thoughts. He had expected something a little different when he asked Jenny Hershberger to come to Wooster to help him out. So, when the diminutive silver-haired Amish woman with a white kappe and a plain blue dress showed up at the station accompanied by a slightly overweight eighty-some-year-old man, he was taken aback.
kappe But Jenny sat down in the chair in front of his desk before he could say anything.
“So, Detective, you say you have an Amish Quilt you want me to look at?”
“Yes, Mrs… yes, Jenny. It’s a bit deteriorated… Say, can I ask you something?”
“Yes, Detective?”
“Ma’am, do you think you two are up to handling a police investigation? I mean you’re… you’re…”
“Old, Detective?”
“Well, Ma’am… I wouldn’t exactly put it that way…”
