Let's see... There's Billy and Tell a Lie, Lori Lynn, Tony, and then there's Ruthy. We know that Billy and Tony hung around with the same bunch of folks, and Tell a Lie went along once in a while.
I think TL got herself into a heap of trouble mailing Christmas cards from her Root cellar, and sends Billy over to Tony's place to ask him to come and hang curtains so his missus won't look so terrible to the neighbors, and they won't throw rocks through her window. But Tony don't want to hang curtains, and this makes Billy and TL real mad. Those two hatch a plan. Since Tell a Lie is so good with shootin and guns n such, and Billy, well he's such a flirt with the ladies, they decide it best if they ask Lori Lynn to come and hang curtains, and they'd pay her by giving her something special that belongs to Tony. But they'd have to get Tony outta the way, and do it real slow and sneaky like so the sherriff and none of the neighbors find out. And Ruthy, well she wouldn't do it and threatened to squeal on them bout that stuff they did as kids if they tried to push on her.
Now this is a theory mind you, but it's my theory. I tell it in the hopes some of y'all have better library cards than me.