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MUTT AND JEFF

JEFF THE MOSQUITOES AROUND HERË ARË TERRIBLE! I DIDHT SLEEP A WINK. TODAY YOU GO. TO THE VILLAGE AND GET A COUPLE OF CANOPIES!

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I DON'T GET THE IDEA BUT. I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO IT!

I'LL DRIVE À COUPLE OF STAKES

IN THE GROUND TO PUT THE CANOMES OVER, THEN WE

CAN SLEEP IN PEACE!

THEY ONLY HAD ONE CAN & PEAS SO I GOT

AN EXTRA CAN”

"TOMATOES INSTEAD!

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Unwelcome Addition

CHERIFF DAMIEN looked around

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"I' didn't think so at first. She was the single room of the slab. shack. still alive, lying on the floor there. I The floor was swept clean, dishes were saw what had happened and I grabbed stacked neatly on their shelves above a towel and rushed over and tried to But there the sink. There were lace curtains at stop the flow of blood. the windows and an immaculate white wasn't any use. She'd cut an artery and pink candlewick spread on the bed, or something. So I threw the towel to find These the curtains and bedspread on the bed and rushed out were flagrantly incongruous amid the Hugh." otherwise crude appointments.

'needs."

"Kitty Pease brought as much of Dunbar leaned forward again, cover- the East out with her as she could," ing his face with his hands. Sheriff Sheriff Damien thought. Old and ex- Damien nodded slowly, thoughtfully perienced and wise, he understood the After a moment he got up and went nostalgic hurt that forever dwelt in into the shack. He spoke absently to Kitty Pease's heart. To him the cur- the doctor, looking around the place, thinking: "All fine people. Would tains and the bedspread were pitiful attempts of this woman, who had fol- have made a welcome addition to our lowed her husband into the desert country around here. Just plain, sim- community wastes to recapture some small part of ple folks. The kind any the happiness she had left behind.

And now she was dead. She lay on Presently he, went outside and sat the floor beside the bed, the front of down on the wash bench beside Dunbar her blouse and house apron dyed crim again. He said: son, a horrible wound in her throat. Dead by her own hand, because the "That towel, now, Dunbar. desert had licked her, as it had so was it you said you done with it?" many others who had succumbed to the Dunbar's body changed its posture. fabulous tales of the cheap but rich ever so slightly. It grew rigid. And land in the newly irrigated Buffalo after a moment he uncovered his face River Valley.

and looked around, without leaning

Sheriff Damien sighed deeply and back. sadly turned away. A rattling old car drove up to the door and a small, saN- dy-haired man got out, removing handbag from the tonneau. He had an air of efficiency about him.

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What

"Towel? I threw it on the bed." "Yeah, but, where is it now?" How should I know? Probably the doc or Hugh or some of the people that "She's there by the bed, Doc," were here picked it up and put it some Sheriff Damien said, nodding.. "I place. It wasn't a very handsome thing haven't touched her." The doctor to have lying around.”

went inside and Sheriff Damien paus- "Likely," Damien said. "Logical and

By Vic Yardman

ed at the door. Out near the corral sensible. Only, you're sure you threw was a group of men: Hugh Pease and it on the bed, eh?” the two or three neighbours who had "Sure, Of course, I'm sure. Why?" come to console him.

"Well, it's like this, Dunbar. I reckon

Hugh sat on an overturned water that's a lie. I reckon if you'd tell one bucket, his hands hanging idly by his lie you'd tell another. I reckon side, eyes staring sightlessly straight you're making excuses for something. ahead, jaw, slack, a picture of despon- I dunno what fer, but I intend to find dency and misery. The men looked at out. That spread now it's immaculate him and looked away and shifted from white, like the curtains. You take and one foot to the other. It was hard to throw a towel on it that's covered with sfind words at a time like this.

fresh blood and it wouldn't stay white,

Sheriff Damien sighed again, and see?" glanced sidewise. From the corner of Dunbar's body stiffened again. This his eye he had seen Sid Dunbar, Dun- time because he felt something hard bar was sitting on the wash bench, and round pressed against his ribs. chip on hands, eye closed. It had Damien saw the blood leave the man's beer hewho, driving by, discovered face. “All fine people,”, the sheriff Kitty Pease and summoned first her was thinking. "Simple, respectable husband, then Doc Graham, then the folks that would have been a welcome sheriff.

addition to our community. Yeah.?”

~(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated Newspapers.)

** “Kinda gets m^ man, eh?” Damien,said, not unkindly.

Sheriff

PROSECUTION CLOSES CASE

* Dunbar raised weary eyes, nodded, thrust his hands into his pockets and stretched his legs out. He was, consi- dering the men grouped around Hugh Pease, only a boy. He had dark hair and dark eyes. He was baching' 'it two sections away, and because it is lonesome being a bachelor in this big, far-away, land, the Reases had invited him over frequently. Some said that †Dunbar came from the same section of Cị thờn Park where the Peases had lived, and this sárvedì'asɔ a common interest for the three of them. They were all fine people, would have been a welcome The State has closed its case in addition to the country, if the country the trial of James J. Hines, former had given thầm: «i.fair: break.

all 81 Tammany“ Hall leader. ever had such an witnesses testined on behalf of the at said. He seemed;

the inclined to prosecution. thing were wel

New York, o-day.

and

Mr Stryker for Hines, announc-

that he would reserve the right move the dismissal of the

-Reuter.