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A YOUNUM UNDERSTAND?
T YOU?
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Five Hours Dead
· Obadiah Little was dead. There were plenty who would be glad to hear that news. There were a great majority of others who didn't care. rap.
Obadiah was a mean old man who lived alone on a farm ten miles west of Fairview. Everyone hated him because he drove a sharp bargain and foreclosed mortgages on the minute and was considered one of the weal thiest men in the state.
That was the situation that con-
"Some blunt instrument."
The rock eh?” "Could have been,"
He had Just then Owen came in. a tall, rawboned individual with him.
He'd "This is.. Roscoe," he said.. Roscoe looked scared. parently been drinking, but arrested sobered him up.
ap. being
Baid. "If to
"Sit down, Roscoe, I you're innocent there's nothing worry about. Owen, step outside and Owen went out. Roscoe tried to in fronted Owen and me when we drone collar Moses Morris again.” up to investigate. It looked like one look indifferent, and succeeded of those long drawn-out affairs that acting like an overgrown school boy.
"Forget it, Roscoe," I said. "You've might not end anywhere. Worse, folks around the country-side didn't think got nothing to worry about.". kindly of us, it being our job to He grinned, and there was relief avenge, so to speak, the murder of a in his eyes. man who needed murdering.
Owen came in with Moses, Moses Preliminary investigation revealed looked important. Apparently he'd the following facts: Obadiah had been gaining a little recognition from been killed by a rock thrown through the neighbours.
a window near which he was sitting,Moses," I said, "you're a first class
You murdered Obadiah!" reading. We knew he had been liar. sitting there reading because Moses Moses' jaw went slack. Owen look Morris, a neighbour, had passed by in ed uncertain, but kept his mouth
Roscoe stared at Moses, the early evening and noticed the shut. light in Obadiah's window, and notic- though he were seeing a ghost. ed Obadiah sitting beside it,
"How do you figure that, Shurruff?”
By
Moses.
James Freeman
had gone up the road looking for a he asked, wetting his lips.
"Easy as pie," I said. "You start- cow that had strayed. He found the cow and started back and noticed ed out after your cow and stopped that Obadiah had shifted his position. by to talk to Obadiah about renew. Something about the way the old man ing a mortgage, perhaps, or some looked aroused Moses curiosity, and thing else. Anyway, you got mad and he went up close and saw blood' on slugged him with the stove poker by the Obadiah's temple. Moses went on Then you propped him up
put home and called the police.
window, lighted the lamp and We corroborated this by talking to the Book in his hand figuring some- neighbours who had heard Moses call- one would see him sitting there and story. Then you ing the cow, and by discovering foot- corroborate your
the went outside -and- heaved- a prints and hoof prints outside
Later, window, and by the fact that Oscar rock through the window.
come back with your Jones, another neighbour, had come by when you while Moses was looking in the win- cow you saw that Obadiah had stump- dow and could vouch for Moses' story, ed, and you went up to look which
So we discounted. Moses as a pps is when Oscar Jones came by," I re- sible suspect, and went to work on sorted to the age old trick of jabbing the others t who had hated Obadiah. a finger, under Moses nose and say
"You killed him, didn't you?” There was, for example, Roscoe Nor- ingr bert, who lived a mile away, and who And Moses nodded dumbly. had been helping Obadiah with his There was, of course, blood on the haying. A neighbour had heard poker to prove that part of it, but it Obadiah and Roscoe quarrelling over was what the doc said that gave me the real lead, Dead five hours. Well, wages that very day: g
So we called at Roscoe's house, and five hours ago the sun was shining, struck a snag. Roscoe hadn't been and a mean old man like Obadiah home all night. That looked bad, or wouldn't burn oll when the sun was good, depending on what side of the out.
fence you were on. I sent Owen to (Copyright, 1998, By The Associat hunt up Roscoe, and returned to ed Newspapers. Obadiah's farm.
Quità a crowd had gathered out- side.Jn Lights from automobiles illu- minated the house and grounds Among the cars I noticed Doc Orion's little c coupe,
He was inside, and. had already gun his investigation.
"How's it look?" I asked him... "Let you know in about an hour. He glanced up and returned to his work. I scowled. Doc was usually more: confidöntsda
I began looking around the house.
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After about a half hour I found a The China Mail'
tobacco can filled with greenbacke stuffed in behind: a chimney. Well, I thought, the motive wasn't robbery. Every one must have known he had money
dden, around some place, and anted! nd it they'd have
lace apart/03
ck into the bedroom. Doc
ings:back"into his bag.
five hours
THE PAPER THAT GETS
INTO THE HOME
he
lost