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MUTT AND JEFF

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MUTT YOU TOOK MY.

THAT

MONEY THAT I EARNED

AWAS

FIGHTING YES

ALL

AND GAMBLED IT

του

HAD!

IS THAT A NICE THINGS FETO DO AFTER ME FIGHTIN

SO HARD TO EARN THAT DOUGHT. IS THAT A WAY

STOP JEFF YOU'RE BREAKING

IM SORR

AWAY! WHY DID YOU,

TAKE MY $400.

TREAT. YOUR BEST.

FRIEND?

MY HEART (SNIFF)

Boo Hoo Hoo

I'VE GOT FOONSCIENCE!

I APOLOGIZEĮ SNIFFUSNIFF)

AWS

BUT WHAT ABOUT MY FOUR HUNDRED

MAIL-JULE 28, 1988. By BUD FISHER

YOU RUNT, ARE „YOU GONNA LET BYGONES BE BYGONES

OR MUST I

BUCKS?

THE

DAILY SHORT STORY

CITY COPS

"'VE investigated some queer cases, could do was find the set that led back but the jewel robbery up at River's to the deserted shack. "The thing to End Lodge topped them all. Tracy do," Eben told us, is for you two nan- and I were dumb; we're ready to admit nies to make yourselves comfortable in that, but, after all, we're city cops, not the shack, annab the thief when he

comes home." primitive wilderness natives.

The reason we were called in was be- It wasn't a pleasant prospect, but it So Tracy cause Homer Livermore's wife had lost seemed like the only bet.. $60,000 worth of gems, and neither she and I bought ourselves some supplies, nor Homer trusted or had faith in Eben and moved into the shack, For two days we fought mosquitos and flies and Jackson, the local constable.

Eben Jackson met us at the station, ate cold beans, not daring to build a and it wouldn't take a sleuth to see he fire for fear the smoke would warn of was sore because

Livermores our presence there. If it hadn't been the hadn't had faith in him. At any rate, that the Livermores. had offered five it was his territory and we had to con- grand for the capture of the thief and return of the jewels we would have sider his ideas.

quit.

"I'll show you what I already found out," he told us briefly, "then let you smarties dope out the rest."

On the third day Eben dropped around to see how we were doing. We and told him in no uncertain terms, told him if he wanted to spell us for a day or so we'd split the reward.

"Mean it?" he said...

.

"Sure we mean it. You lay your

He took us up to the lodge and show ed where a ladder had been placed against the house so. the thief could gain admission to the bedroom. Then he allowed the thief had probably tak- en his loot and akun off in the woods hands on the thief, you get $2500 cash,” Eben rubbed his hands together. to hide..

Tracy and I weren't woodsmen. We "Come with me," he said. ⠀⠀ both realised that if we started hunt-.. We followed, him back to town, and ing around the brush we'd probably even the sight of that unpaved street complicate matters by losing ourselves, was thrilling. He took us directly to Then Tracy had an idea, "If we gotta the jail and pointed through the_bars browse around through the bushes we at a prisoner. The prisoner, was Bron-

co Pete, looking rather depressed. ought to have a native guide.”

Well, sir, this was it: Bronco had and he recommended Bronco Pete. committed the theft all right, but it Bronco Pete, it seemed, was a guide didn't do him much good, because he Nor who didn't have enough money to buy couldn't dispose of the jewels. a license for himself, hence was out of could he spend the $50 in cash he'd

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work. We explained our predicament swiped along with the rocks, because to him and he shrugged indifferently, he hadn't worked for months, and to Then Tracy flashed a $20 bill at him, do so would have aroused suspicion. and he changed his mind. He allowed Then we came along and advanced him so long as we were working for the $20 and he bought himself a new out- law he guessed he didn't need a license. fit with it, including a new pair of He took the twenty, and a promise boots with cleat marks on the heels. of two more after a week's work, and The fact is, he'd been following his went away. He came back the next own tracks, and we didn't know it.

Eben was theicious, because, being morning dressed up in new high laced boots, riding breeches, a,checked shirt a native, Eben knew you couldn't buy and a big hat. He was mightly fraud, a fancy costume like Fete had for less and looked like the pictures you me of than $50. But Eben let us go ahend northwoods guides.

with the case, as per the request of the Livermores, till we got fed up; till, in fact, we offered to split the reward.

Well, sir, we started out: Bronco, Tracy, Eben and myself. We trekked around through the wood for a whole day. Then Bronco-Pete led us up to a deserted shack in a clearing. We look- ed inside and found evidences of some one having been there lately. Outside we found a set of fresh foot-prints, the heels of which were marked with ; common iron-cleat. k mas

“Charues are di said Eben, “If we of these here boot- markerwa'll have us the thief. I seen tracks the around the lodge neath the Hid

er

says, eyeing Bronco, "you find us the owner of these boots and there's an extra twenty in it for you." Pete set off through the brush like a hound on the scent Tracy and followed wearily. We were alck of the business eady, We weren't used totaleuthing

would have Have raised order to pur

Pételed

lodge, and

narked

I

Which, incidentally, we were delight- ed to do and get out of there pronto.

(Copyright, 1938, By The Associated Newspapers).

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