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MUTT AND JEFF.
MY STOMACH ALWAYS HURTS
WHEN IT'S EMPTY!
MAYBE. THAT'S WHY -YOU ALWAYS HAVE A HEADACHE!'
【MISTER, I'M
HUNGRY! CAN
You SPARE
THE PRICE OP A MEAL
How MUCH?
OTKI
OH LETS SAY ABOUT
FIVE "DOLLARS!
FIVE DOLLARS? WHY DON'T YOU ASK FOR TEN AND BE DONE WITH IT?
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NO MAIL FEBRUARY 8, 1989.
THELL
HUH-
(OH, I WOULD WAY
IFI COULD
BUT I CAN'T!
BUD FISHER
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
A PLAN THAT FAILED
"Less than a month ago The day before Jed Saeurs and his tea later. family left for a month's vacation in Jed Saeurs soaked on a heaping big Florida, Jed accosted Patrolman Pete slab of fire insurance." He sat for Wallace as he was passing in front of a moment in deep thought. Wallace
said: the house on his regular beat.
“Look here, Wallace," Jed said, “my "Jed Saeurs is a mean one all right. family and I are going to Florida for Dang it, some men have it in 'em big-. a month's vacation. Mrs. Saeurs is a ger than a woodchuck. I should have mite nervous about leaving the house, known when he give me, that $10 there what with all the burglaring going on was something wrong." in the vicinity, You kind of keep
Ranny lighted a cigarette. your eye on the place, eh? Here's ten. dollars to help you to remember." wondering how we're going to prove that Jed bored those holes and placed Pete Wallace was frankly surprised. the candles there? He's a smart one..
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He never remembered police else." men and elevator men and the like at Christmas, because he contended they were being paid for their services and looked shouldn't have to be. bribed.
They went back to the kitchen and around. After awhile Ranny said: "If we could find the bit and stock which was used to bore these holes, maybe we'd get someplace."
"Why, thanks, Mr. Saeurs, Sure, I'll keep my eye on the house, all right,!!
After the Saeurs' had gone Patrol- They, hunted inside the house and man Wallace got to thinking about the garage and cellar, but they didn't what Jed had done, and he decided find the bit. "Well, that's that the old man wasn't half as mean Ranny said: “Maybe better.
as folks made out.
By Stanley Cordell
O.K."
Jed
Ten dollars for was smart, enough to take the bit with Ho's too mean to throw it away
doing nothing more than walking by him.
the house and looking at it the way We'll wait till they get home."
he'd been doing for the past ten years! So Patrolman. Wallace went back to... A man that liberal with money. cer-
his daily patrolling, and Ranny "tainly couldn't be called mean.
Lathrop took certain samples that he wanted and gave his time to things,
A month later the Saeurs'
other
canie
Pete had a stroke of conscience. He ought to do something toward earning to the that $10. Maybe if he went
house trouble of walking around the once or twice a week, Jed Saeurs, when back from Florida. Pete was standing in front of the house when they drove told, would appreciate it.
in. He waved and grinned a welcome,
So the next evening about 5:80, just but Jed Saeurs didn't even look at him. before he went off duty, Patrolman Jed's face had a mean, pinched look, Wallace walked up the drive of the and Pete knew then he was guilty, Saeurs home and around back. was crossing between the garage and
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the back entryway, when his eye caught a flicker of light through a rear, win- dow.
That same night Ranny and Pete Wallace drove up before the Saeurs
Jed home, Ranny went up the front wal and Pete went around back. Saeurs wasn't going to let Ranny in at Alarmed, the officer ran up onto the first, but Ranný made a few sugges- Į
He gestions that brought a look of alarm back porch and peered inside.
man's the old
face. Jed couldn't see the source of the light, but to its flickering reflection told him it was didn't come to the point of his visit at until caused by no electric bulb. Using his once, but hemmed and hawed
through the night stick, he broke a pane of glass, Pote Wallace came in unlatched a window and stepped in- kitchen and exhibited the bit and stock
he'd found in the Saeurs' car. side.
Ranny took the bit and Jed Saeurs ·
He Beneath the kitchen table two can and returned to headquarters. dles were inserted into holes bored into gave the bit to a chemist, and gave the floor. Strips of waxed paper, ex- him also some samples of wood chips tended from the candles to a bucket of he'd taken, from the kitchen floor near alcohol on the opposite side of the the candles. A half hour later the
room. .
chemist reported that the minute par- widened ticles of chips found on the bit were Patrolman Wallace's eyes
With identical to those taken from the kit- as he observed these things out extinguishing the candles he called chen floor. headquarters on the Saeura' telephone. Confronted by this evidence, Saeurs' Fifteen minutes later: Lieutenant belligerencé waned, It was replaced by Ranny Lathrop was being shown the fury, candles and the strips of paper.
at
"Blast your hide!" he roared The way I figure It," Wallace said, Pete Wallace. "I give you ten dollars
You- "that Bucket of alcohol would be ignit- and you pull a double cross! ed in about two days. Them are big you cheat!! candles and they ain't half burned out. Pote Wallace soberly, reached into. his pocket, produced a crumpled ten- yot.!!
Ranny nodded. “And in two days, dollar bill and handed it to Jed Saeurs, the Sseurs will be living in some Flori. "I figured it wasn't good money_right think how they'll feel when notified ed it, and now you can have it back. I da hotel. He smiled grimly."Just from the start, Mr. Saeura. So I sav their house has burned down." ju never would get no fun out of spend-
thats Ranny extinguished the candles, then went to the telephone..
(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated "Insurance," he explained, ten minu-
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