In Greenwood Cemetery, there is a stone dog that never leaves its post.

It sits at the grave in the Simms family plot of a young girl named Mamie, watching—just as, according to local legend, the real dog once did. Day after day, it is said, the animal returned to lie on the grave of its young mistress until it died there itself. Generations have remembered the story. Visitors still stop to see it.

But also in the Simms plot lies another story—less visible, more violent, and just as bound to that same family.

It is the story of Dr. William Locke Chew.