Unnamed State Agents

Very little can be said definitively about the two men, presumably state officers, who apprehend Darl (which help from Jewel and Dewey Dell) and then, the next morning, take him in custody on the train to the state mental hospital in Jackson. They never speak. They both carry guns, and have new, crisp haircuts. It is not even clear how they managed to be waiting outside the cemetery to "come on" Darl, though when Cash mentions Gillespie in his account of Darl's apprehension it seems likely that it was the man whose barn Darl burned who arranged to have them there (237).