Murder Within Murder
“TO THURSDAY, 11 A.M.
Pam and Jerry North had taken their drinks to a table in a corner of the café section at Charles. Hugo took Weigand and Sergeant Mullins to the table, although Mullins looked backward, a little wistfully, at the bar.
“Hello, Bill,” Pam said. “We’ve got a new cat. It looks like a very tiny polar bear, doesn’t it, Jerry?”
“Exactly,” Jerry said. “Did you tell Hugo what you wanted?”
“Hugo knows,” Pam said. “I told him what they were going to want. Martini. Old-fashioned. The ca...t’s Martini.”
“What?” said Mullins.
“That’s the cat’s name,” Pam said. She looked thoughtful. “But I’m afraid she’s going to have a confused life,” she said. “Because when anybody wants one she’ll think it’s her and around our house that would be confusing, I should think. Especially as she already looks like a polar bear.”
“What?” Weigand said.
“Well,” Pam told him, “that would be confusing enough, wouldn’t it? To look like a bear and be called after a drink, and all the time to be a cat?”MoreLess
Pam and Jerry North had taken their drinks to a table in a corner of the café section at Charles. Hugo took Weigand and Sergeant Mullins to the table, although Mullins looked backward, a little wistfully, at the bar.
“Hello, Bill,” Pam said. “We’ve got a new cat. It looks like a very tiny polar bear, doesn’t it, Jerry?”
“Exactly,” Jerry said. “Did you tell Hugo what you wanted?”
“Hugo knows,” Pam said. “I told him what they were going to want. Martini. Old-fashioned. The ca...t’s Martini.”
“What?” said Mullins.
“That’s the cat’s name,” Pam said. She looked thoughtful. “But I’m afraid she’s going to have a confused life,” she said. “Because when anybody wants one she’ll think it’s her and around our house that would be confusing, I should think. Especially as she already looks like a polar bear.”
“What?” Weigand said.
“Well,” Pam told him, “that would be confusing enough, wouldn’t it? To look like a bear and be called after a drink, and all the time to be a cat?”MoreLess
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