Description
Police Operation
John Strawmyer stood, an irate figure in faded overalls and
sweat-whitened black shirt, apart from the others, his back to the
weathered farm-buildings and the line of yellowing woods and the
cirrus-streaked blue October sky. He thrust out a work-gnarled hand
accusingly.
"That there heifer was worth two hund’rd, two hund’rd an’ fifty
dollars!" he clamored. "An’ that there dog was just like one uh the
fam’ly; An’ now look at’m! I don’t like t’ use profane language, but
you’ns gotta _do_ some’n about this!"
Steve Parker, the district game protector, aimed his Leica at the
carcass of the dog and snapped the shutter. "We’re doing something about
it," he said shortly. Then he stepped ten feet to the left and edged
around the mangled heifer, choosing an angle for his camera shot.
The two men in the gray whipcords of the State police, seeing that
Parker was through with the dog, moved in and squatted to examine it.
The one with the triple chevrons on his sleeves took it by both forefeet
and flipped it over on its back. It had been a big brute, of nondescript
breed, with a rough black-and-brown coat. Something had clawed it deeply
about the head, its throat was slashed transversely several times, and
it had been disemboweled by a single slash that had opened its belly
from breastbone to tail.
Product ID: 9781776768646
Sku: 9781776768646
