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BURIED STORIES ...
( PART 3 )
As short, watered down, and buried as the
story you were actually allowed to write became,
it still created quite a stir in town. It is not every
day that a big city newspaper like the "Sacramento
Globe" prints a word about Broakdowlne, even if it
did take up not much more space than a flattened
wood beetle. But nobody could remember this
reporter, Philbur Smallshall, ever passing through
town.
For two days after Mrs. Bicci's return from
vacation in Sicily, she was actually nice to me. But
I can not help but get the feeling that she and her
husband are trying to discover how "The Sacramento
Globe" found out about the fire in the first
place, notwithstanding all the inside background
information you had obtained. Your editor would
only allude to mysterious "informed sources". So
the Bicci's seem to have begun a little investigation
of their own.
People around these parts are getting mighty
paranoid and suspicious, not trusting a soul,
especially, someone holding a camera. Enclosed,
you will find some photographs I cautiously took
yesterday around the Bicci & Onri. For the sake
of my family and myself, it might prove beneficial
for me to act all the more ignorant and
unobtrusive than usual.
The next time you report on the Bicci & Onri
RailRoad and your editor insists on confirming
the validity of the facts, may I be so bold as to
suggest that he not ask the owners? Dealing with
them can maybe be profitable for a few people,
but most unhealthy for a great many others.
Conducting business as usual
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