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MUTT AND JEFF

BUT I THOUGHT YOU

SAID YOU WAS GONNA MAKE A PAINTING OF A COW GRAZINGUINA FALDE

I DID! HERE IT IS!

I JUST FINISHED (T!

// DON'T SEE ANY COW!

LOOKS LIKE A LINE. JUST PAINTED ACROSS THE CANVAS WHAT'S IT SUPPOSED TO BE?

THAT'S THE / HORIZON! THE TOP PART-18 THE SKY AND THE BOTTOM IS THE FIELD!

·FIELD? (WHERE'S THE

GRASS?

THE

COW

ATE IT!

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1989 ·

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WELL, THEN WHERE'S THE

\COW?"

YOU DON'T THINK

SHE'D BE SUCH A

FOOL AND STAY- THERE WHEN THE GRASS'İS ALL GONE,

Do you?

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No Weapon

On a quiet, empty street at 4 It was closed. He looked at it, then o'clock in the morning woman's turned to look at Baker,

scream is a terrifying, and far-reach-

ing sound.

Taylor

Outside a siren sounded. the Therefore, despite hour and the apparent desolation, it went to the window. It was surprising was not surprising that, a' crowd the number of people who could get gathered quickly.

to the scene of a tragedy on such short notice.

A

A milkman, a block and a half'

Footsteps, mounted the stairs, away, paused with his foot on the running board of his track, looked moment later two men entered, one of back, then started running. Two them in uniform. Tayor recognized men appeared from an all night ro- the latter as Dave Plumber, & patrol staurant. A coupe containing a car man,

man and a woman in evening clothes. slowed down and stopped. Patrol- man Carl Taylor came around the nearest corner at a dog trot.

"Looks like murder," Plumber said. "Her throat's out.". Then he saw the knife in Taylor's hand. He came swiftly across the room, looked at it The woman lay

under his breath. the concrete closely, whistled on

"Found it, eh?" pavement, a crumpled heap.

He turned to look Three

His face was hard, stories above her a light appeared in at Lem Baker.

"This is the jigger a window. A man's figure leaned condemning.

we're lookin' for, eh? Well, let's over the sill. ́·-

take him in and find out things."

Patrolman Taylor rose from besido the body. He saw that a crowd had gathered. He saw Officer Mike Flan- nigan elbowing his way through it. He spoke briefly to Flannigan, then entered the doorway of the building and started up the stairs two at a timo.

He started forward The little shrank back. He was still be- an

His eyes darted wildered, frightened. first one way and then the next.

"Wait a minute!" Taylor said. Plumber stopped and glanced back. "Let's not go off half-cocked," Taylor

At the third landing he paused. A continued. "Wait here a minute." man and a woman, dressed in night- Without waiting for Plumber's reply, clothing, were standing in a doorway, or answering the puzzled look in his They looked startled. Across; from eyes, Taylor went back into the hall.

By James Freeman

them was a closed door. Taylor rap- He closed the docr behind him.. Two ped on the closed door with his night minutes passed. Tayor returned. He stick,

seemed curiously satisfied.

After a minute it opened. Light Without any explanation he strode streamed into the hall. Taylor enter- over to the bureau and rummaged ed the room and closed the door. The through the drawers. Completing his man who had admitted him was small, search here, he moved about the room, sandy-haired, He wore a bathrobe examining everything closely. over his pajamas. His eyes held a dazed look.

There was only one room, and that was small. Whatever Taylor was look- "What's your name?" Taylor asked ing for he failed to find. Presently ho sharply.

produced a flashlight and went over to The little man blinked. "I'm Lem saw him shoot the beams of the flash- the open window and leaned out. They Baker."

*

Taylor.

"That woman your wife?" inclined window.

Baker stared dully toward the win dow, then back at the officer. "I-I guess so."

light downward.

When he pulled himself back there

his head toward the open was a curious expression on his face. "No murder," he said shortly. “Suicide or nightmare or something. We don't want to make the mistake of taking Baker in for something he didn't do."

"Eh?"

Tayor gestured impatiently,' "Come ont. you?" The little man only stared at "If he cut her throat there'd be blood him.

around. On the knife or on a towel Taylor: said: "What happened?" or something. There isn't any blood Baker licked his lips. "Somebody anywhere. Folks across the hall say screamed. I woke up. Isobel was their door was open because of the gone. Then I heard the people out heat. Baker didn't go outside. side the window. I turned on the light Couldn't get rid of a weapon or bloody and went over to look?”

cloth anywhere, but downstairs if he Taylor stared at the little man a did."

You know your own wife; don't know?d Plumber. "How do you

| minute, as though seeking to learn "How about the woman's throat

what went on behind his dull, fear being cut " stricken eyes. Then he looked about Taylor jerked his head backwards. the room. He noticed that the runner "She cut it on the awning fixture on a bureau was rumpled. A drawer when she fell. There's blood on the of the same bureau wasn't fully closed fixture,It don't pay to go off half- He walked over the the bureau and cocked, Plumber."

pulled open the drawer. 'Inside' were Plumber took a deep breath. He some shirts and socks and men's shorts. started to say something, changed his They were not neatly arranged. Taylor mind. The best he could do was look rummaged beneath them. Presently cheated.

his fingers closed on something malld.. *- (Copyright, 1989, by: The Associated He drew out a large led Jack-knife. Newspapers)