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“Tell Faith I have her dog If she wants Yoda back, she knohere to find him”

Faith blinked at her neighbor “He did what?”

When Mrs Beasley had burst into the tiny office space she’d rented, face red, chest puffing, eyes wild, Faith had feared for the elderly woman’s life

“That handso around over, he dognapped Yoda!” Mrs Beasley panted, her wrinkled hands fluttering against her heaving chest “Call the police, now, so they can catch the scoundrel”

“Sit down, Mrs Beasley” Sharon calass of water, and motioned to the eoing to have a stroke if you don’t calm down”

“I’ to have a stroke,” the woman denied, her face flushed with excite That awful ”

“H yours is a bit much, even for a Wakefield,” SharonMrs Beasley with concern

The poor woman really had been frantic when she’d burst into Faith’s new office a couple of blocks over from their apartment complex

“Do you think we should call for an a a little winded, Mrs B”

“An ambulance?” Mrs Beasley stared at her as if she was daft “We need the SWAT team, not a defibrillator”

“It’s okay,” Faith assured her neighbor, taking her pulse and respirations Tachypneic and tachycardic She patted her neighbor’s shaky hand, et her a blood-pressure cuff and stethoscope “Vale won’t hurt Yoda”

At least, Faith didn’t think he would

“He ht,” Mrs Beasley cried “Yoda could tell he was a rascally fellow and didn’t like hi”

Wasn’t it just like Vale to have caught Mrs Beasley’s eye even while the wo to have him thrown into jail?

“What did Yoda do?” Faith took her blood pressure Slightly elevated at 140/90, but not too bad considering how upset the woman was