Show FICTION CITY COPS CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson INVESTIGATED some queer I'VE cases but the Jewel robbery up at River's End Lodge topped them Tracy and I were we're ready to admit after we're city cops not primi- tive wilderness The reason we 3 Fiction were called ln 1 was because Homer s wife had lost worth of and neither she nor Homer trusted or had faith in Eben the local Jackson met us at the and it wouldn't take a sleuth to see he was sore at the show you what I already found he told ns let you dope out the He took us up to the lodge and showed where a ladder had been placed against the Then he allowed the thief had probably taken his loot and off in the woods to Then Tracy had an we gotta browse around through the bushes we ought to have a native Eben recommended Bronco it was a guide who didn't have enough money to buy a license for hence was out of We explained our predicament to him and he shrugged Then Tracy flashed a bill and he changed his He took the and a promise of two more after a week's and went He came back the next morning dressed up in new high-laced riding a checked shirt and a big He was mighty and He was mighty and looked like the pictures yon see of northwoods looked like the pictures you see of northwoods we started out We trekked through woods for a whole Then Bronco Pete led us to a deserted Outside we found a set of fresh the heels of which were marked with a common iron said we find the owner of these here boot-marks we'll have us the 1 seen tracks Uke that around the lodge Pete set the brush like a ho the scent Tracy and I ja led us back to the and sure were marked footprints beneath the bedroom window thing to Eben told for you two nannies to make yourselves comfortable in the nab the thief when he comes IT WASN'T a pleasant but it seemed like the only So Tracy and 1 bought ourselves some and moved into the The third Eben dropped around to see how we were We told him In no uncertain and if he wanted to spell us for a day we'd split the he we mean it You lay your hands on the you get with he He took us directly to the Jail and pointed through the bara at a Bronco this was Bronco had committed the theft all but It didn't do him much because he dispose of the Nor could he spend the ln cash he'd swiped along the because he hadn't worked for and to do so would have aroused Then we came along and advanced him and he bought himself a new outfit with including a new pair of boots with cleat marks on the Eben was suspicious because he knew you couldn't buy a fancy costume like Pete had for less than But Eben let us go ahead with the as per the request of the till we got fed in we offered to split the |