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"I’ve held a gallon of olive oil, John," Saine dozens of those suckers coroup of Sedge’s e softly, fro retireirls

He walked over to the crowd "I’m so sorry," he said

One woman let out a loud wail and fell into his arms She took hiently on the back "So sorry," he said again "There, there," he said ineffectually, but it seemed to help

The woman tried to compose herself "It was all my fault!" she wailed

"Mabel!" another of the elderly cashiers protested "Honey, it was not your fault Mr Sedge wanted that display, and he told everyone exactly hoanted it set up"

"No, no…" Mabel moaned "I left I left I walked to the back and said that it was all closed up and I was leaving And I told him to come lock the door I should have waited We should have left together!"

Sa to console the woer and suspicion He held Mabel at ar that you left him alone in the store, with the door open?"

"Oh!" She started to sob again

"No, no, Mabel, this wasn’t your fault!" he said quickly and lifted her chin "Was the store e at him "Well, yes I mean, well, yes, I think so I did the call over the announcement system I asked everyone to check out, and announced that ere closing I turned off the lights--except, of course, we have the safety lights And the lights were still on back in the office, but it gets kind of dark in here--shadowy, at least Oh, that’s it! He didn’t see that he was going to run into the display Oh! Oh, no, it could have been a child But the shelving was behind the tins…" She broke down in tears again

"There, there," Sam said

Jenna had come to stand quietly beside hi her arms around the woet that out of your head"

"He missed his wife, honey," another woman said hopefully "At least he’s with her now"

"Yes, that’s true, that’s true…" Mabel agreed, but then she sobbed again "But he loved his kids and his grandkids!"

"But he’s with his wife, and he probably et Mabel into the arrabbed Sam’s sleeve "I want to see the body," she told hi at her

"Sa, but I’ve been around an eency room a time or two I want to take a look at the body" She looked up at hiht her hand and made his way to John Alden

"You really want to allay my suspicions--and those of anyone else, should questions arise, which you know they will," Sah of exasperation, but then he looked at Jenna, and he seeht in the horned god costuroaned "What? What? What now?"

"I’d like to see him, please," she said

John scowled "The medical exaue"

"I’ll only need a minute or two," Jenna said

"What nohat now?" John deood cop And, of course, that doesn’t ree to do any favors forto question you later, or say that you illing to accept the obvious with no question"

"Pain, royal pain, in ht soot two minutes And be careful--hell, I don’t want either of you dead or crippled by olive oil"

Then John called to the officers ere holding the line at the door "Let the off positions It was obvious, though, that the rush had been to attempt to save a man’s life, not preserve the scene Towels had hastily been spread on the floor to keep e intocans had been tossed everywhere

But a path had been cleared to the body, and Sae’s bloodied and crumpled for on a chart, asked with a frown

"Alden’s permission, Doctor," Sam said The ME lifted an eyebrow, but he didn’t protest

"We’ll be taking him out in just a minute," the doctor said

"There will be an autopsy," Sam said

"Of course Accidental death," the ME assured him "And that didn’t take a medical opinion Just look at what happened here Of course, that’s not official As you said, certainly, there will be an autopsy"