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what do you think the Police would figure if they
found a body -- mangled beyond recognition -- dressed in your
clothes and carrying your identification?"
"Wh-why, they'd think it was me, I guess," I said. "Especially
since there would be local records and witnesses who thought they'd
seen me in this area! But-but how on earth could we ever explain
that mark on his body or-or what you said about him being mangled?"
"Easy!" Miri Hanai Devil smiled. "Molly's cats! They seem gentle
enough with her, but they just hate strange men! We could even rub
some fish oil over the hands and face, to make sure they give those
parts a good going over!"
I shivered in horror at the thought. But I could see her
awful logic: If the Police found my cousin Roderick dead here, and
me here also, in disguise, they couldn't help but think I'd killed
him; but if they found a body they thought was me, and could piece
together stories from witnesses to "prove" that I'd just arrived
here and met with an accident in the cats' cage... Then they
wouldn't be looking for me at all!. I'd be perfec
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