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Had she seen so she shouldn’t have heard?

Why had Doc Spiver been murdered? Had he killed the woman and someone else in town had found out about it and shot him so there would be a kind of justice?

She tried to empty her

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SHE STOPPED AT the World’s Greatest Ice Cream Shop Aood to see you You here with that cute Mr Quinlan?"

"Oh, yes Can I try the banana walnut?"

"It’s yummy We’ve sold more of this flavor in a week than any other in the history of the store We have so ood fifty-ht have to hire on so cards around their barrel"

Velma Eisner came in from the back room, which was curtained off from the shop by a lovely blue floral drape She snorted "Yeah, Sherry, I can just see those old coots selling ice cream They’d eat it all and belch at us and try to look pathetic"

She turned to Sally and s the rouse and complain and say it omen’s work But we decided to keep the in all the profits"

"You’re probably right," Sally said and accepted her ice creaone to heaven She took another bite and sighed, "This is wonderful I wonder if Helen would hed

Sherry said, "We’ve co way since we used to store ice cream in Ralph Keaton’s caskets, haven’t we, Velma?"

Velma just smiled as she took 260 froe, but nobody’s home"

Helen came in from the back room "Hi, Sally A," Velma said "She’ll be back in a couple of days, she said Probably by Friday"