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Show page 144 said his brother-in-law threatened to k i l l the bobcat. Said t h a t ' s why he took the gun. I got the gun from him. I didn't see no bobcat, no General Burnside he says his name i s . I didn't look too hard; them l i t t l e animals can scratch you up." "Well, what are the charges?" asked Reba. "Looting his brother-in-law's house of gun, and stealing v i t t l e s off the t a b l e ." "Posh, I wonder sometimes why you stay in the law enforcement business," "I got to do my duty," Tolliver said, humbly. "And the bobcat, General Burnside, is on the knoll somewhere, tied up? If Cathy Mathews, Mulberry's ace reporter, hears of t h i s ! Or Mrs, Westbrook, chapter president of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals! Posh, do you realize that my husband and your employer, Grady, won r e - e l e c t i o n by only four votes?" "The waiter broke down again?" Posh asked, knoxving nothing else to say, "Yes. I ' l l have to take the t r a y s up. But y o u ' l l have to go to the knoll and untie General Burnside." The four grown occupants of the upstairs c e l l grinned in unison. "Kid, what you wanta s t e a l a bobcat for?" asked Red. "You d o n ' t hear good," Lonnie said. Jake the farmer said kindly, "General Burnside, that his name?" Jake was medium t a l l , with shaggy eyebrows, a type Lonnie had seen on the knoll scouting for whiskey. Milton was of the |
