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"Once It didn’t work out"

"I wonder if any es ever work out"

"You an expert?"

She was surprised at the sarcas, "A bit My parents didn’t do well Actuallyno, never mind that I didn’t do well, either That’s just about one hundred percent ofpast Purn Davies’s general store Quinlan grinned and took her hand "Let’s go see what the old guys are up to I’d like to ask theht that poor woman was murdered"

Purn Davies, Hunker Dawson, Gus Eisner, and Ralph Keaton were seated around the barrel, a ga stove that looked to be more for show than for utility, a handso when Quinlan and Sally ca the urunts, one okay, and Purn Davies actually folded his cards facedown and got up to greet them "What can I do for you folks?"

"You meet Amabel Perdy’s niece, Sally St John?"

"Yep, but it weren’t ht?"

She nodded She just hoped she could keep her fake naht Brandon for Sheriff Mountebank and St John for everyone else

There was more than polite interest in his question about Amabel, and it made Sally smile "A the stor up really well"

Hunker Dawson, as sitting there pulling on his suspenders, said, "You had us all out looking for that poor woman ent and fell off that cliff It was cold and windy that night None of us liked going out There weren’t nothing to find anyway"

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