At the end of lizzie bright and the buckminster boy, why does reverend buckminster side with the phippsburg townspeople against the people of malaga island?

mr. stonecrop describes how much money the island people have taken from the phippsburg townspeople.

the reverend finds out that turner’s baseball bat and glove were left on the beach, not the front porch.

mr. stonecrop talks about the people in town who would support those on malaga island.

the reverend learns that turner went to the island with lizzie griffin, an african american girl.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.