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“You volunteered,” she rehed “This one’s a mess and there are ten others”

“Mind giving me a summary of it?”

One eyebroent up “You can read, right?”

He grinned “Big type Small words You know hs”

“Don’t make me believe it, Detective Bannon” She patted the file “Get started Do what you can”

“How co?”

“Oh—there are lots of Montgo” He noticed that she had dodged his question “The fainia The historical society even gives tours of their ancestralstately hohteen-hundreds Haven’t you seen it?”

“No I usually get assigned to drug dealers in doublewides, remember?”

“Of course I do” She nodded then somerys would know a doublewide if one snuck up on them and bit their butts They’re rich and always have been” Her dry tone omerys more than clear “Still and all, they’re not as snooty as some of the newcomers around here”

“That’s so,” he responded idly

“I guess” Doris turned back to her work “Go ahead and start sorting what you can I’ll finish the one I’ on while you do”

“Okay Take your time”

He took off his leather jacket and slung it across the back of a folding chair, then settled his long frae in his back when he sat down RJ opened the Montgomery file and noticed that the earliest forms had been completed on a manual typewriter He picked up the first piece of paper and read the basics

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Adult/Child: child