Tombstone.
I walked into town this morning and waved to Zeth. When he greeted me I told him, “Been tryin’ to figure out who set my office on fire. Pretty sure I’ve got a good idea. Just need a few solid witnesses to nail them.”
“All I have seen is that some things changed since I got back.”
“Things have changed?”
“Well saw that sign above me.”
“Yeah… What about it?”
“Well it seems new.”
“Not really something to be concerned about.”
“And I noticed someone placed posters down on the sheriff’s station.”
“They’ve got bounties on them.”
“The sheriff tried to take them down.”
“The sheriff didn’t put them there?”
“True.”
“Well that’s odd.”
I got out my fingerprint equipment and started digging around for prints.
“There’s about two posters. One on the wall the other on the post.”
“There’s three here.”
“Three? I saw two. I didn’t count the board there.”
I investigated the ‘good woman’ poster and saw the match for prints and said, “These ones match Lot’s prints.”
“Not sure about these other two,” I said and went to look at the other one.
“This one and this one.”
“Why the heck is there a poster from Ghenna…” I blinked and went to read the other.
“These two are the ones I was talkin’ bout. Second looks like a child wrote it.”
“Since when does Ghenna have marshals?”
“New to me.”
I smiled, reading the note on the post. “Looks like a kid wrote that.”
“True.”
“The grammar alone proves that but also look... smaller prints.” I showed him with the magnifying glass. Zeth looked through and I said, “Not sure which kid but…”
“Makes me wonder is there a difference between boy writing and girl writing?”
“If you want we could punish ’em for sayin’ bad things about the law.” I read it out loud and said, “‘Lawdogs wear girl bloomers and girl lawdogs gots hairy arms and smell funny.’” I shook my head and said, “Gonna have to ask Miss Abi to look into that.”
“If it was a normal person doing that would be defacing public property, wouldn’t it?”
“ Looks like I’ve got myself another case. It’s still defacing public property even if it’s just a kid.”
“Destruction of public property and harassment if it was against a normal person.”
“We can still punish a kid for destruction of property. Just... in a different kind of punishment.” I took a picture for evidence.
“Are you able to get fingerprints?” Zeth asked.
“As I said already.... They’re little prints. Just don’t know whose.” I collected the prints with my coal dust and lifted the prints off the poster, putting them in a bag.
“Guess you’ll need fingerprints of the orphans,” Zeth said.
“Guess so.”
“My son is a adult now anyways,” Zeth said and then looked over as Grant Cole walked over.
“Howdy you two.” Grant grinned.
“Well, well, well... Sniper owes me money. Grant you know anything about this here note?”
“What note is that, Trin?” Grant moved closer and I pointed to the note posted written by a child.
Grant look closer at the note and laughed. “Either by a child or and adult writing as a child I would say.”
“It’s by a child. The fingerprints are small.” I shook my head.
“Ohh I see, okay. But it is harmless, right?”
“Just ain’t sure which one but I’m determined to find out.”
“Why Trin, it’s just a prank.”
“Not if they decide to grow up doing similar things that will escalate because they think they can get away with this.”
“Hmm why not report it to the orphanage or the school then?”
“That’s the plan. Once I find Abigail.”
“Anyway, I have bigger fish for you to fry.” He frowned. “Did you hear about my getting shot last night along with a few others?”
“Nope. Was there law around?”
“Yes, Amara… But were many involved… Gli and Rikki for two I know of.”
“I just got back so it’s new to me,” Zeth said.
“Sure she handled it then.” I nodded.
“Tj was injured so was me and Jess the doc,” Grant said.
“Did you write a statement and give it to someone?” I asked.
“I am pretty sure Gli started it.”
“Found he’s wanted,” Zeth said.
“If Amara knew who was there then I’m not needed this time,” I said.
“Well I made a statement to Amara… she was there yes,” Grant said. “I guess it has been taken care of then.”
“I need to get some paperwork done. See you later, gentlemen,” I said and headed to the office.
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