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About the crooked sheriff. She flushed again.Thatsmy business. Devine decided to call Montgomery to check on her. You told me. Well, will you fill him in? Id seen family photos of them when they were young. Ted and Joel Bradshaw. There was no doubt they were brothers — they were virtual twins. And poor ones at that, growing up in a tiny white-frame house in New Hampshire, their mother working in a laundry and their father a philandering husband who stopped in occasionally between his benders and his shack jobs. But even then Ted stood tall and straight while Joel slouched. As a teenager Joel had been put in a psychiatric hospital for depression. The county had had to pick up the tab, hed once told me, making his situation all the more humiliating. Uh-huh, I said and I must not have been able to keep it out of my voice, whatever it was, probably suspicion, maybe even dread, because Murfin caught it, countered it with a small deprecatory gesture, and said, I swear its nothing like the last one. And the dog almost ate you up in his affection. No, it was natural causes. Well, sort of. Sure, Murfin said. Whod they send down there, the guy from Texas? White said,So this is all connected with the murders? Oh, heavens, I wouldnt know about that, Jackson said. In fact, it is with some effort I am recalling the color of her eyes and hair, but the general impression, the overall impression which would be made on a jury would, I should say, be favorable, distinctly so. Did you enter from the street? Where else could it have been? The sheriff had examined all other places. Not exactly. Campbell said,Well have our forensic accounting people go over the surveillance footage, of course. But you have your MBA. What do you make of it so far?..