Part two anticipates later events in the story by assuming the joke will go to far and someone is going to get hurt or something bad will wind up happening. .
In part three starts to build suspense when Jarette was trying to fall asleep he had thought he heard a faint noise in the direction of the table. Jarette, breathless, froze in the chair. After a few seconds Jarette rose from the chair finding the wall in the dark and following as a zombie then knocking over the reading stand till he had found the candle. He lit the candle to see what was the matter but everything seemed to be the same. With little candle left Jarette walked back to the chair, blew the candle out and sat it beside him. Sitting at the chair without ease telling himself he will not lose the bet because he has no belief in immortality. "There is no after-life, it is only a dream-, Jarette says to himself. Soon after Jarette, at an unease, finishes telling himself dead do not walk at night the suspense begins when he hears light, soft footfalls growing nearer from behind him. Even though Jarette knows this is all a bet being in the dark room with a supposedly dead corpse, he is beginning to get a little frightened.
At the beginning of part four Helberson and Harper are on the way to the house that Jarette is locked up in. Helberson, worried a bit, struck up a conversation about the bet. He was worried if Mancher were to act as if he had come back to life would Jarette go mad and try to hurt Mancher. Harper replied,"" Yes, Jarette would kill him."" Soon after their conversation they stepped out of the carriage and began to walk towards the house. While walking a man running had suddenly appeared. He asked for a physician and Helberson told him he was and what was the matter. The man said,"" Go and see for yourself."" With this on Helberson and Harper's mind all they could think of is what if their little joke did get a little out of hand.
