Actually, Jem and Scout were disappointed at the cause of old Mrs. Radley's death because the children had assumed that Boo would one day try to harm her just as he had once injured his father when he stabbed the old man with a pair of scissors.
Jem and I decided that Boo had got her at last, but when Atticus returned from the Radley house he said she died of natural causes, much to our disappointment.
The disappointment didn't end there. When the children decided to try and pry some information about Boo from their father, Scout was nominated to ask the question.
"Atticus," I said, "did you see Mr. Arthur?"
Atticus "sternly" replied that "I did not," leaving Jem and Scout with no new news about the "malevolent phantom" who lived inside the house.
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