One of my neighbors from downstream was talking about their previous cabin. They'd go there and some things would seem slightly out of place, and one time they got there and there were crumbs on the kitchen table that they knew they would never have left there. So the neighbor started watching, and he noticed a guy from up their road go past his house and not come back for a couple of hours. The next time, he followed him, and sure enough he was going into Mardelle's cabin, and furthermore meeting a girlfriend there.

Eventually the wife found out and they sold their cabin up the road. They were going to get a divorce, came up with two trailers to load their stuff into. When they drove towards their home in town pulling those trailers, he turned north instead of continuing east, and was never heard from again. Mardelle's husband said one time he had a conversation with that ex-wife, and upon reflection, didn't totally blame the guy for taking off or the girlfriend.