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    The Circuit Riders
    The Circuit Riders
    The Circuit Riders
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    The Circuit Riders

    By R. C. FitzPatrick and John Schoenherr

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Circuit Riders - R. C. FitzPatrick

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Circuit Riders, by R. C. FitzPatrick

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Circuit Riders

      Author: R. C. FitzPatrick

      Illustrator: John Schoenherr

      Release Date: February 8, 2008 [EBook #24543]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CIRCUIT RIDERS ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE

      CIRCUIT

      RIDERS

      On the Board,

      they were just little

      lights that glowed.

      But out there

      in the night of the

      city-jungle,

      they represented

      human passions—

      virulent emotions—

      and deadly crimes-to-be ...

      by R. C. FitzPatrick

      Illustrated by Schoenherr

      ■ He was an old man and very drunk. Very drunk or very sick. It was the middle of the day and the day was hot, but the old man had on a suit, and a sweater under the suit. He stopped walking and stood still, swaying gently on widespread legs, and tried to focus his eyes. He lived here ... around here ... somewhere around here. He continued on, stumbling up the street.

      He finally made it home. He lived on the second floor and he dragged himself up the narrow staircase with both hands clutching the railing. But he was still very careful of the paper bag under his arm. The bag was full of beer.

      Once in the room, he managed to take off his coat before he sank down on the bed. He just sat there, vacant and lost and empty, and drank his beer.

      It was a hot, muggy, August afternoon—Wednesday in Pittsburgh. The broad rivers put moisture in the air, and the high hills kept it there. Light breezes were broken-up and diverted by the hills before they could bring more than a breath of relief.

      In the East Liberty precinct station the doors and windows were opened wide to snare the vagrant breezes. There were eight men in the room; the desk sergeant, two beat cops waiting to go on duty, the audio controller, the deAngelis operator, two reporters, and a local book ... businessman. From the back of the building, the jail proper, the voice of a prisoner asking for a match floated out to the men in the room, and a few minutes later they heard the slow, exasperated steps of the turnkey as he walked over to give his prisoner a light.

      At 3:32 pm, the deAngelis board came alive as half-a-dozen lights flashed

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