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    And t out togetravelin around try killin people. I forget  are t! t many of em. I dont t  kno. She generally is.

    BELL CLIMBED teps of t doo  and looked at telephone. Go ahead, he  said. Im here.

    t up. Sheriff Bell, he said.

    ened. he nodded.

    Mrs Dole bit. Yes mam.

    ook off  and put it on t he  bridge of his nose. Yes mam, he said. Yes mam.

    Mrs Do many dead cats in trees. I tly  if youll just leave tle bit, you hear?

    looking at it. Its money,  o talk to people about cats in trees.

    ell. Maybe you do.

    tton and put   up on the desk. Bell, he said.

    listening.  to t up.

    Get turtle. ts all rig here.

    he desk.

    All rigs on. Ill be ty minutes. And torbert? S trunk.

    o t of t and parked and got  out. torbert got out and anding by tudying tire tracks. You seen this, I reckon,  he said.

    Yessir.

    ell lets take a look.

    torbert opened trunk and tood looking at t of t  ly dried. o trunk and took sometpocket and unfolded it. It  ained receipt for gas from a service station in Junction texas. ell, he road for Bill yrick.

    I didnt look to see if he had a billfold on him.

    ts all rig. t dumb luck.

    udied t like a  ter.

    s a ter?

    Its a target round. You got the keys?

    Yessir.

    Bell s trunklid. rucks on terstate alked to Lamar. told  back in about tin and t t loadin o one of our units and  need a  er. You take Lamars unit back to