If you think about it, the story really does have two
separate endings -- one when the hunting party comes home and Nuttel runs away and we
find the men aren't ghosts, and one at the actual end of the story. Here's why I see it
that way.
For most of the story, we are thinking about
Vera's poor aunt and how hard it must be for her to deal with the deaths of husband and
brothers. So then when the men come back, that part of the story is done. We know what
has happened to the men and we know that Nuttel has been
fooled.
But then we might wonder "what's going to happen to
Vera now?" Surely she'll get in trouble. Then we get a second ending that resolves
that issue -- she makes up another story to avoid getting in trouble for making up the
first.
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