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MUTT AND JEFF
MISS JENNY, WHAT'S YOUR HURRY? WHY ARE YOU' RUNNING AHEAD LIKE THAT FOR?
WELL, THIS IS A LONELY ROAD AND I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU'D TRY TO KISS ME!
AW, HOW COULD IT I GOT THIS PIG UNDER ONE ARM AND THIS STUB UNDER THĘ.
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WELL, I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU'D PUT THE PIEDOWN AND THE TUB OVER IT?";
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Country Constable
FELIX PIERCE, the local conting Yeonst
NELIX PIERCE, the local constable ver star which was pinned to his shirt
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Kosanne's eyes began to flash. the. finding of Durrand Kurson's body. at the Loon Cove-summer camp to started to say something, but John gether with a suicide note, wanted to Cameron stopped her with a gesture. summon. Esau Love, the county sheriff He said something in a low tone, and from Milbanks, but Rosanne Kurson, Rosanne answered: "Can he? You Durrand's..niece, scoffed at the idea.mean, just because he has that badge?” "It's ridiculous. I'm taking my un- And John Cameron nodded. Then they cle's body back to Philadelphia at both stood up, and Cameron said: once. I'll not waste time while a cou-"Well, what do you want us to do?" Felix wondered. Inside the was ple of doddering old country constables try to make themselves appear impor- trembling. In the first place he didn't know what he would have done had tant."
Felix scratched his head. He sup- they refused, and in the second place posed he was one of the doddering old he felt a little foolish. The plan. he had country constables referred to, and in mind was certainly a wild one.
He herded the pair into the office, this made him wonder, because he was.. only thirty-one.
closed the door and smiled apologeti- "Might git yourself into a peck of cally. "You folks don't seem to realize trouble, Miss. Kurson. Suppose now I got a report to make and things has ycur uncle was murdered 'stead of gotta be straight. Now, all I can say is that Miss Kurson said that Cameron suicide?".
"What a preposterous-ideal You identified Mr. Kurson's handwriting. saw the note he wrote, in which he said Well, I didn't hear him an' I want him he could stand the pain suffered from to do it now, so's, I can write it that his sickness no longer and had decided way in my report."
***Rosanne bald irritably “Well; hurry. to hastern the inevitable."
Felix wasn't sure what "inevitable" This is all so silly." meant. "Yep, but suppose it wasn't. So Felix picked up the suicide note your: uncle 'wrote the note?"
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"But it was., John Cameron testified to that, John has been uncle's secre- tary for years," She smiled wither ingly. Don't you suppose in all that time he'd get so he could tell uncle's writing?"
which was lying on the desk and show- ed it to John Cameron.. "Is that it?" he said: "Is that Durrand Kurson's handwriting?"
John Cameron looked at the note and "I'd nodded. "That's it," he said. know Mf. Kurson's penmanship: any-
"Seems 80," Felix admitted. ! He where." scratched his head again. He was only
"That's all I want to know," said
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acountry constable. This was his Felix. “Thanks,” He seemed relieved first case in which death was involved. that the business was over. He hoped he'd never have another. He "Of all the ridiculous nonsense," Ro- didn't know what to do. He didn't sanna smapped as she and John Cam- know what his rights were. He wasn't eron turned toward the door. sure whether he had the authority to Wait a minute," said Felix, and hold Durrand Kurson's body at the they swung around and found them- camp or not. Whatever happened, ho selves staring into the gaping end of That's He an old-fashioned six-shooter." wanted to do the right thing.
- all I wanted to know".Felix went wanted his record kept clean.
Within the next hour, Felix did a ou, and now his lips were flab against.. lot of thinking, "If he were going to his teeth, "to make me certain it was do anything, he decided, he'd have to you two murdered Old Man Kurson do it quick. Miss Kurson had already because you was in love and he wasn't I reckon Miss telephoned to town for an ambulance. dying quick enough. Her own Bags werd backed and waiting Kurson is his sole heir. Nope, don't on the yoranda, –– John Cameron, who move, on account of I got a hair trig- Was Kurson's secretary, had paid the ger here. And I'll keep these notes. bills' and 'called the depot for reserva- The one Cameron wrote "when he co- tions,
pied Kurson's handwriting, and the Felixbegan to sweat. Within a one I wrote when I copied the one half hour they'd be gone. They'd be Cameron wrote, Cameron, for a man out of his jurisdiction. Then suppose would know Kurson's penmanship any- some smart city detective discovered it where you got a mighty poor memory. wasn't suicide at all, but murder! Felix That was my handwriting you identi- shuddered at the thought. Why, he'd fled as his.”
be the laughing stock of the whole (Copyright, 1988, By The Associated countryside. He'd never be able to Newspapers). live. It down.
Desperate, Felix went into the tiny office off the main lobby in which Ray Summers, who owned the camp, used tò, transact his business. He found some paper and a pen, and did some figuring. Then, adopting an attitude off balligerence and assurance that he didn't feel, he went out onto the porch. You two, he said, looking at Ro-
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