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MUTT AND JEFF

NIGHTS ARE PRETTY COLD NOW-] I FEEL SORRY FOR JEFF SLEEPING IN THAT UNHEATED

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JEFF HERE'S AN OLD-FASHIONED FLAT-IRON YOU CAN WARM) PÜT IT AT YOUR FEET IN BED TONIGHT. YOU'LL SLEEP MORE COMFORTABLY!,

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WHEN you're in the law-upholding long enough to allay any suspicions, game," Sheriff Fred Hodgson he carefully covered the outcroppings used to say, "you've got to figure in with loose dirt. This would destroy all the elements of human nature, any evidence of a possible motive. You've got to figure, for example, that Then he bumped off Old Emery and a criminal is just aa vain as "an hon three days later came to town with est man, and vice versa,

the story of the old boy suddenly van- ishing and acting queer.

"Now, it isn't going to occur to a vain man that there's anything about "Well, I thought, if that's the case, his character that marks him as dif- where's the body? So i got to think- ferent from other folks. I mean, you ing harder, and suddenly, remembered take this jigger Boris Lord. It didn't that Emery had dug a well several once cross Boris' mind that I had years ago, but didn't strike water. So wondered at the fact that he was he covered up the hole he'd made with throwing in with Old Emery Isakson. boards and piped water from the creek Old Emery, you know, worked a silver to his cabin instead. Now I thought, mine up in Red Canyon, barely eking that abandoned well hole would be an out a living. He always claimed that excellent place to dispose of a body, if he had the money and could buy especially if the killer were so vain equipment, there was a fortune to be he'd never expect me to be suspicious taken out of that old mine. He claim- of him.

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ed he had prospected for more than "I went back to the house where thirty years and he knew the signs. Fred and Boris were talking and said "No one believed the old coot, and directly: 'Boris, I'm going to take a one would lend him the money, look down that old well Emery dug Then this Boris Lord came along and awhile ago. Do you mind? chipped in a few thousand dollars. It "Boris wasn't expecting that, and made me wonder. Not that I knew it caught him with his guard down. Boris to have a criminal record. He'd His mouth fell open and his face turn- always kept, just within the law in his ed pale and he gurgled inarticulately. dealings. That's what I mean by van- "Sid, I says to my deputy, 'you get ity. He thought because he'd kept your gun out and walk behind Boris. within the law everyone believed him We'll all go down to the well.' to be an honest citizen.

"So we did; and I could see at a "Three months passed; and then one glance that my hard thinking had been day Boris came into my office looking productive. There were signs that troubled. He said that Old Emery had things around had been disturbed. been missing for three days. He Boris stood to one side looking_cur-

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the. old boy had walked off moved the boards, For a minute I somewhere and maybe camped out thought I'd missed the boat in my overnight. But now three days had figuring. Then I looked down passed and he wondered if I shouldn't well, and there was Old Emery lying be told. He said that Old Emery had at the bottom, dead. been acting queer lately, numbling to himself..

"Well, Boris,' I said, 'it looks like you went a bit too far in your shen- "So Sid Geery, my deputy, and 1 anigans this time. I reckon this deal rode out to Old Emery's diggings won't be inside the law. I'm arrestin' and looked around. We searched for you for the murder of Old Emery,” two days and didn't find hide nor hair. "You must be out of your head,' of him. Then we came back to the Boris replied. "Any dumbhead could diggings. We probably would have see what happened. Old Emery got to quit and returned to town, for there wandering around like I said he'd been were important things to be done in doing of late, and he must have fallen the county, but I couldn't get it out down the well and killed himself. Now of my mind that this Boris Lord had I wonder how you're going to prove chipped in with Old Emery when that that isn't what happened. usually he was fooling around with "Boria" smugness was a sight to be- much slicker deals.

hold, and poor Sid looked as though “So I told Sid to stay at the cabin he'd lost a good poker hand. *So and keep Boris busy talking while that's how it is? I said to Boris. took a look around. I went to where That's how you plan to keep within Boris and Old Emery had been dig the law this time. Well, Boris, here's ging with the machinery they'd bought once the law's gonna trump your acc with Boris' money. There. was a lot If Old Emery fell down the well and of loose dirt piled up, and the loose killed himself, how. come the board dirt somehow looked queer. It look cover was nestling on top of the well ed like it had been placed there for a as neat as a pin? Sid, clamp on the

bracelets."" purpose and not just carelessly dump.

(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated "So I dug away, and pretty soon 1 Newspapers). came on some, outoroppings of silver that set my eyes bulging. There was a fortune in what I saw. So I sat down and lighted a cigaretto and be. gan to think. And what I figured out- was this: Boris had come along and seen those outcroppings of silver and realised what it meant. He began

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tune for himself. He couldn't just kill Old Emery and take it. Taking it would require time. So he agreed to chip in some money in return for a partnership, which - would'' give him clear title in case Old Emery`should suddenly, vanish,

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