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YEH IM PRETTY GOOD AT IT, TOO!
ILL BET CHA A
BUCK I CAN KNOCK THIS APPLE OFF YOUR HEAD AT THIRTY YARDS!
WHAT? ARE You CRAZY?
WHY?
WHY? YOU LITTLE FOOL, YOU GOTTA BE AN EXPERT
TO DO A STUNT LIKE: THAT! SUPPOSE YOU
MISS!
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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 4, 1988.
By BUD FISHER
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
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THERE must have been thirty people in the hotel when Hiram reported that there was a leak in the plumbing in Room 23. Elmer cast a quick glance around the room, decided that most of the guests were about to depart for the beach, tennis courts, golf links or mountain trails, and wouldn't, there fore, be in immediate demand of any thing. So he left the desk and follow- ed Hiram up the stairs."
In the second floor corridor he met Bessie Brown, hostess and general com- plaint-receiver. He told her he was going to Room 28 to look at the plum- bing, and asked her to hang around the desk till he got back.
guessed, was to conduct his own inves tigation in his own way.
Elmer was smart and shrewd, but he didn't. discover who had taken the money. Not that summer Failure an- noyed him, made him feel foolish and frustrated. Off and on during the winter that followed he thought of the robbery, and cursed himself for an idiot because he had been too dumb to apprehend the thief.
He fancied the thief and others were having a fine time laughing about it.
Still, he managed to put the matter out of his mind when spring came. There was plenty of cleaning and re- pairing and painting to be done. About The damage in Room 28 wasn't near the middle of June things were ready ly as bad as Elmer feared. He told and Elmer opened up. Guests began Hiram to go back down stairs and fetch arriving almost at once. By July 1 up his tool kit. It was fifteen min- the place was almost filled. Many of utes before he had the leak repaired those who came this year had been and was once more back in the lobby, here before and there was much friend- Several ly talk between Elmer and those he The room was deserted. guests were standing on the veranda remembered. Folks liked Elmer, des- outside. Hiram, and Bessie Brownpite the fact that he was a rube, and were always flattered when he remem- were not in sight.
bered their faces and called them by name.
-Elmer went in behind the desk and opened up the showcase where he kept stored tobacco and chocolate bars and chewing gum. This was the time of day when he found time to enjoy an after breakfast cigar..
Reaching for one, he paused, his eye on the tin cash box that he kept on a had shelf below the counter. There been a ten-dollar bill and a five and ́ two ones and some change in the box. Now only the two ones and the silver remained...
On July 4 the final party arrived to fill the last remaining rooms. Among them was a youth named Sid Cowen, who, Elmer recalled, had been present the year before. Cowen was a jovial,
BY KARL GRAYSON
Elmer slowly drew out his cigar and stood thinking. He was sure that the larger bills had been there. He tried talkative sort, who considered Elmer to think whether or not he might have less than intelligent. Almost the taken them himself. He was positive first thing he said was: "Well, Elmer, that he hadn't, but he wanted to make old sock, did you catch the thief who sure before jumping to conclusions. stole the fortune from your cigar
That was Elmer's most identifying box?" trait: making sure of a thing before he "Nope,” said Elmer shortly. He reached a decision. It had taken him could stand most anything but to be five years to decide about building the kidded about his failure to apprehend hotel. Folks wondered why he hadn't the thief. Cowen grinned broadly. either built or sold his property years "Ought to hire a detective. Can't have before. It was the most desirable land things like that happening. Bad for for the purpose anywhere around. It guests." bordered on Lake Winneposaukee, and That afternoon - Elmer called · Lon there was over half a mile of white Davis. When the officer arrived, Elmer sandy beach shaded by huge pine trees, told him to arrest Sid Cowen. "Don't with small cove at one end that was make no fuss. Can't afford to annoy a natural harbour. Elmer had deliber the guests. You see, I know Cowen's ated, five years because he wanted to the man because I never told; a living make sure a summer hotel prove a soul about that money being stolen, paying proposition.
yet he asked me if I'd caught the
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Elmer stood with his elbows on the thief.” top of the show case thinking hard, twirling the lighted cigar around and Newspapers), around between his pursed lips. The loss wasn't great, but it would never do to have a thief among his em ployees, nor among his guests, for the matter of that. He though of Hiram and Bessie and the girls who waited on tables and the chambermaids and the bellboys and the outside men. Then he thought of the guests. He knew the guests far better than they suspected. They took him for a rube and he let it go at that. He knew the value of pleasing' guests, letting on that you thought they were funny and smart and, clever.
After awhile Bessie came in and El- mer gave over the desk to her and went "outside." "He knew he had a job on his. hands identifying that thief. The thing to do, he 'supposed, was, report the matter to Lom → Davis, the local chief of police. If the amount had been larger it would probably prove great, sport to, lock all the guesta in cho hotel and conduct, an Investigation the way they did in the movies.
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