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"She?"
"Well, it had babies, didn't it? That makes it a she in my book.
How come I missed that story?"
"It never got in the paper," said Garrison. "Got crowded out.
Showed up in the slop. I rescued it. We'll get it in tonight. I don't know how it happened."
"We have to watch things like that," said Lathrop. "That's a good story. We should have run it."
"Al, it happens now and then. Not often. But it does happen. It's just one of those things. I've been wondering if Kathy should go down to Iowa and look into the situation. The visitor might remember her."
"That's ridiculous," said Lathrop. "Not a single one of them has paid any attention to a human."
"How do we know?" asked Garrison. "Sure, none of them has wandered over and said hello, but that doesn't mean they don't notice people. Kathy was at Lone Pine for several days and.
"What good would it do if old 101 did remember her? There's no way to interview one of them. No way at all to get any information out of them."
"I know all that," said the city editor. "I just have a hunch. I don't think it would be a bad idea."
"All right. Go ahead. You run the city room. If you have a hunch.
The door burst open and Jim Gold thrust through it.
"Joh
"A dead what?"
"A dead visitor," said Gold.