MUTT AND JEFF
WELL, WATCHING THE DENTIST'S OFFICE WHILE HE'S HOME TO LUNCH AIN'T BAD! I GET MY
TEETH FIXED FOR NOTHIN'!
SAY, DOC, I WANT MY TOOTH PULLED RIGHT AWAY QUICK BEFORE I LOSE
MY COURAGE!
BUT-
HURRY UP DOC, THỂ PAIN IS TERRIFIC! THE
QUICKER YOU GET THIS
OVER WITH THE BETTER
I'LL LIKE IT!
OUCH! HEY! THAT'S
NOT THE TOOTH!
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There had been a blow of wind for enough of your theories. From three days, and so it was not until point forward, shut up!" the fourth day that they found Lucian
If Sprague had any idea of object- Roane's body. He was lying in about three feet of water up against
the ing
registering indignation he wasn't given the opportunity, Jim base of the coconut palm shaded sea- wall and had been pretty well batter- Cutter turned away and headed across the sloping lawn that led down to the ed by the constant beat of waves
Sprague, bristling, watched against the concrete. A post mortem sea-wall.
moment. was held and it was discovered that his departing figure for a the dead man's head had been bruis- Then suddenly he smiled to himself and went into the house and began to ed.
jot down the names of the guests. Two days passed and Cutter
Dudley Sprague immediately jump- ed to conclusions. "Someone knocked
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him unconscious, then heaved him into come no nearer to solving the mystery, the sea," he said. "That was the day One by one he had called in or visited the blow started.
and questioned the men whose names The body has pro- bably been buffeted about by the storm appeared on the list Sprague had given all this time. Eventually the waves him. All had iron-clad excuses. washed it up against the sea-wall,' The officer was a lot more discour- where you found it this morning, De- aged than he cared to admit. It made tective Cutter."
him shudder to think, of defeat, and it gave him a particular feeling of Detective Cutter ran a hand through horror at the thought of yielding his thick black hair. For three days enough to seek further particulars But he had been the object of berating and from the overbearing Sprague, complaining and threats and scorn there seemed no other course open. because he had been unable to locate Returning from his questioning of the missing Lucian Roane.
the last of the cocktail guests, Cutter "What?" he asked, "leads you to be- parked his car in the Sprague drive, house lieve all this happened three days ago?" crossed the lawn toward the
"Because three days ago we held a and then swung toward the sea as he cocktail party here. There were about espied Dudley Sprague walking along a hundred guests. It would have been the sea-wall at the end of the lawn. easy for anyone to dispose of Roane." Half way across the lawn, Cutter stop- "You mean, there were people here ped short. He stared. His mouth fell who wanted him disposed of?"
open. Dudley Sprague laughed shortly. Something had happened to Dudley
An I never knew Sprague.
object had hurled
"Just about everyone.
By James Freeman
m. more hated man, Lucian Roane held through the air and struck him on the the controlling interest in a dozen en- head and Dudley Sprague had toppled terprises, and most of those enter from the 'sea-wall into the ocean with- prises were operated by our guests, out a sound.
He exacted toll from them all. He Cutter raced across the lawn. Lucki- held an axe over their heads, threa- ly the tide was out and there was less tening them with disgrace and ruin than three feet of water at the base if they didn't produce to the extent of the wall. The detective lowered he thought they should. I was one of himself as far as he could, then jump-
his victims.”
"Why didn't you tell me all before?"!
ed, Standing up to his waist in water, this he picked up Sprague's unconscious form, waded to the ladder and a mo- ment later had laid him out on the
Sprague snorted. It was quite ob- lawn. vious he had little respect for the arm of the law he had summoned from his eyes, looked
Presently Sprague groaned, opened around vaguely, Miami. "You didn't ask me." He "What happened?" he asked. turned to Doctor: Jordan. "Doctor, how long would you say Lucian Roane along the sea-wall and a coconut fell Cutter grinned. "You were walking had been dead?"
days,"
out of a tree and hit you on the head. "Approximately three
the You fell into the water and would medical examiner responded promptly, have drowned if. I hadn't seen it "Ah!" Sprague's eyes gleamed happen. That's why Ronhe wasn't triumphantly. "You see! That proves saved. Either someone saw it happen my theory!"
and didn't pay any attention, or it was "So what?" Jim Cutter asked. He too dark. That was the first day of flying was getting tired of Dudley Sprague's the blow and coconuts-were overbearing
"You're so thick and fast. I guess another post of smart, let's see you prove who it was mortem will confirm the manner that socked him on the melon and his death.". heaved him into the ocean."
It did, but nobody over
manner.
admitted
"If you don't mind," Sprague said having seen the disaster take place. coolly, "please refrain from using the Too many, were glad it had happened. -er-dialect of your-er-trade. Sar- (Copyright 1989, By. The Associat- casm will not help your case any. If ed Newspapers).
you feel unable to cope with the situa tion, I shall be very happy to report. your conduct to headquarters and ask you to be replaced."
"You won't report nothing!" Cutter snapped. "From now on I'm taking charge of things around here and gly- ing the orders. Sprague, you get into the house and jot down a list of that gang of 100 cocktail drinkers. And don't make any attempt to leave the grounds unless you get permission from me. Ome more thing, I've heard
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