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Sherry Vorhees sighed deeply and shook her head "A terrible thing it was," she said "Hal was so depressed that we lost so ht, Sally, it was all men who died All different reasons for their deaths, but it still hurt all of us"

Helen Keaton said quickly, "Don’t forget that quite a few of those deaths caht our cemetery was romantic, set near the cliff as it is, with the sea breezes blowing through We let them bury their dead here"

"Did that poor woet buried here?"

"No," Velaround that ere somehow responsible I told hi As if we could have had so to do with his wife’s death He stormed out of here"

"He didn’t even buy an ice cream cone," Helen said "We had vanilla with fresh blueberries that week He’s never been back"

"Well, that wasn’t very nice of hio now Thank you for the ice crearave"

"He isn’t there," Velma said "He wanted to be cremated and sent back to Ohio He said there was no way in hell he was going to let Ralph Keaton lay hihed "Ralph was put out, I can tell you"

"No, Helen," Sherry said "Ralph was pissed Put out is so you are when Ralph doesn’t throw his shorts in the ha with theht across the street to Thelma’s Bed and Breakfast

Sherry Vorhees flipped the curtain back down on the s of the World’s Greatest Ice Cream Shop She said to the two other woents in town and Sheriff David Mountebank"

"Those big shots should keep everyone safe," Vel a swipe of ice creas in aup the phone "It took a while to read out all those na out the stats on all those guys will be a piece of cake for hiet back to us soon"

Sally said slowly, "I told the women at the World’s Greatest Ice Crearave They told ," Quinlan said and picked up the phone again "Dillon? It’s Quinlan again Find out if a Doc Spiver was cremated and sent back to Ohio, okay? No, it isn’t as important as the other names, just of interest to Sally and me Supposedly Doc had no relatives alive So ould they cremate him and not bury him here in their own cemetery?

"Now, don’t say that It isn’t polite I bet Sally heard that Yes, she did, and she’s shaking her head at your language"

He was grinning, still listening "Anything else? No? All right, call us as soon as you’ve got so" When he hung up, he was still grinning He said to Sally, "I love to hear Dillon curse He doesn’t do it well, just keeps repeating the sa over and over I tried to teach hiood number of really bad words, animal parts, et the hang of it" He gave her so a different pose for each example "Here’s the one that Brammer does best, but only when he’s really pissed at one of the agents"

She rocked back on the bed, she was laughing so hard Then she sobered Laughing?

"Stop it, Sally It’s fine to forget It’s great to hear you laugh Keep doing it Now that I’ve taken care of all of your lewd instincts, let’s go have Martha’s cooking"

It was a feast, better than Thanksgiving, Corey Harper said Martha brought in a huge platter with a pot roast in the center, carrots, potatoes, and onions placed artistically around it There was a huge Caesar salad with tart dressing, garlic bread that indeed made your teeth snap, and for dessert, an apple crisp And there was eggplant pargplant at four-thirty

Martha appeared at just the right tilasses with the nicest Cabernet Sauvignon anyone had tasted in a long time