Charlie is afraid because he knows that the same thing will happen to him.
Answer:
She should probably include information from it since the title seems like the piece is neutral and doesn't take a side.
The foul odor that caused the narrator and Thompson to flee into the cold is the Limburger Cheese. Of course they thought it was the rotting corpse but the pine box did not contain a dead body, instead inside were a bunch of guns.
