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- 17.05.01
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- The Lucky Lottery
- Don't move Ruth Rose," Josh whispered.
루스 루즈는 움직이지 마라," 조쉬가 속삭였다.
"What's it doing up there?" Ruth Rose asked.
"그것은 거기서 무엇을 하고 있어?" 루스 루즈가 물었다.
"I think he's making a nest," Dink said, grinning.
Hector came back with a sheet of paper.
Josh began drawing while Ruth Rose sat like a statue.
While Josh was busy sketching, Dink thought about what Hector had told them.
Any one of the Atrium's residents could be the thief, but Dink didn't think so.
"Mr. O'Leary, can you tell us where you bought the lottery tickets?" Dink asked.
"Sure," Hector said, the chair closer to Dink.
"I got 'em at supermarket Friday morning."
"Were there any other customers around?" Hector closed his eyes, then snapped them open again.
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- 17.05.03
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- 부처님 오신 날
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- 17.05.03
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- The Lucky Lottery
- "Yep, I remember now.
A bunch of people were standing around gabbing about the snow.
Buying candy and gum.
Some were behind me in line to buy lottery tickets."
"Could one of them have seen the numbers you picked?"
"I suppos se it' s possible," Hector said.
“I wrote all my grandkids' birthdays down and handed the slip to the clerk.
Then she typed the numbers into the lottery machine, and out popped the seven tickets.
Anyone could have seen the numbers as I wrote them down."
Dink thought for a minute.
"And did you mention that you were going to send them to your grandkids?"
Suddenly, Hector 's face turned white.
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- 17.05.05
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- 어린이날
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- 17.05.05
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- The Lucky Lottery
- "I guess maybe I did," he said,
"while i was addressing the envelope and putting the tickets inside.
Never thought it would do any harm 'cause I never expected them to win."
Hector sighed and shook his head.
"Me and my big mouth!
I just ca n't help bragging about'em.
How I eat supper at their house, how Lucky 's doin 'in college, stuff like that."
Blue Boy left Ruth Rose 's head and zipped across the room.
He landed on one of the hanging pots.
"Rats,"Josh muttered.
"I hardly got started."
"Let me see,"
Ruth Rose said, reaching for the paper.
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- 17.05.08
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- The Lucky Lottery
- Josh grinned and folded the drawing in half, then slipped it into his pocket.
"Nope. Not till it 's done."
Dink stood up.
"Thanks a lot, Mr. O'Leary," he said.
"I think we 'll go talk to the lottery clerk.
Do you know her name? "
"Sure do," Hector said.
"It 's Dorothy. She 's new, but she 'll remember me.
And if you catch the snake who stole those tickets, there 'll be something extra in your Christmas stockings this year!"
"Great, "Josh said.
"I usually just get boring underwear!"
The kids said good-bye and left the atrium.
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- 17.05.10
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- The Lucky Lottery
- Pal was sleeping under a potted palm tree with his leash on his paws.
Josh woke him up, and the kids got back into their hats and coats.
Outside on Main Street, the wind blew snow into the kids'faces.
"Do you guys think Zelda Zoot is the thief?" Josh asked.
"She looks like my grandmother!"
"If the old folks at the Atrium know that Hector sends lottery tickets to his grandkids every Christmas,"
Ruth Rose said, "they 're all suspects!"
"Guys," Dink said,"
you heard what Hector said.
He likes to talk about his grandkids.
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- 17.05.12
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- The Lucky Lottery
- "Guys."Dink said,"you heard somat Hector said.
He likes to talk about his grandkids.
Anyone in Gree s Lawn could be the thief!"
The kids trudged up Main Street.
Two minutes later, they bustled into the supermarket and headed toward the lottery counter.
"Heel, "Josh told Pal, who waddled along next to him.
"I wonder if that's Dorothy," Ruth Rose said.
She pointed at a young blond woman behind the counter.
On the wall above her head hung a small security camera.
Dink approached the counter.
"Excuse me," he said.
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- 17.05.15
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- The Lucky Lottery
- "Are you Dorothy?"
The woman looked up, chomping on a wad of gum.
"That's me," she said, pointing to her name tag.
It said DOROTHY CALM.
"People call me Dot. who are you?"
"I'm Dirk," he said,"and this is Josh and Ruth Rose."
Dot Calm blew a small pink bubble,let it pop, and then continued chewing.
"Nice to meetcha," she said.
"We were wondering if you remember selling a bunch of lottery tickets on Friday morning," Ruth Rose said.
The woman laughed.
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- 17.05.17
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- The Lucky Lottery
- The woman laughed.
"Kiddo, I sell hundreds of tickets every day."
"This was seven tickets together," Dink explained.
He told Dot Calm about Lucky 's grandfather, and how the tickets had been stolen from Lucky 's house.
Dot stared at Dink for a moment, then smiled fondly.
"Yeah, I remember him," she said.
"Nice old gent, loves to blah, blah, blah.
He told me all about his grandkids and how he sends them lottery tickets every year."
"Do you remember who was hanging around here when he bought the tickets? " Josh asked.
Dot Calm unwrapped a piece of gum and popped it into her mouth.
She chewed for a few seconds, then said,
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- 17.05.19
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- The Lucky Lottery
- Lots of people were standing around."
"Did you notice anyone real close who could have overheard what Mr. O'Leary was saying?" Ruth Rose asked.
Dot Calm squinted and looked into the distance.
"Yeah," she said finall.
"There was one guy I remember special."
She shuddered.
"He was pretty creepy-looking."
"Can you describe him?" Ruth Rose asked.
Dot Calm smiled.
"I can do better than that," she said.
"I know his name! "
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- 17.05.22
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- The Lucky Lottery
- "You know who he is?" Dink asked.
"Just his first name," Dot Calm said.
"He was wearing a bowling shirt with 'joe' stitched over the pocket."
"Now we're getting somewhere!" Josh said.
"I think the name of his team was printed on the back of his shirt," Dot added.
"I noticed it when he left, but he was too far away to read it."
Josh pulled out his pencil and flipped over the piece of drawing panu Hector had given him.
"I can sketch him if you tell me what he looked like," he said.
"You can?" Dot asked.
"Okay, let see. His hair was dark and kind of floppy.
He had a little mustache, too, a skinny one.
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- 17.05.24
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- The Lucky Lottery
- And he had a spa between his two front teeth."
"About how old was he?" Ruth Rose asked as Josh sketched.
Dot closed her eyes and snapped her bubble gum.
"I'd say about twenty-five or so," she said finally
"Did he have any scars or tattoos or anything?" Dink asked, watching the thief's face take shape on Josh's paper.
Dot shook her head.
"Not that l can remember."
Josh held up his drawing so Dot Calm could see it.
"Does that look like the guy?" he asked.
"Yeah, pretty much," she said.
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- 17.05.26
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- The Lucky Lottery
- "But you drew his chin too square. He had kind of a pointy chin."
Josh erased the man's chin, made a few more pencil marks, and then showed her the drawing again.
"That's him!" she said.
"Boy, you could make a living as an artist!" Josh blushed.
"Thanks, that's what I want to do when I grow up."
Ruth Rose looked at Dink and Josh.
"We should take this to the police station and show it to officer Fallon," she said.
"Good idea," Dink said.
The kids thanked Dot Calm and started to leave.
"Hey, I just thought of something," she called after them.
"Joe said he was thinking of moving to California if he ever got enough money."
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- 17.05.29
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- The Lucky Lottery
- "Thanks," Dink said.
"We'll tell officer Fallon."
They hurried out of the supermarket.
snow was still falling.
The wind blew it into their faces, and flakes caught on their eyelashes.
Josh slipped his drawing inside his jacket to keep it dry.
A few minutes later they tapped on Officer Fallon's door inside the police statino.
"Come on in," he said.
"How about a Christmas goody?" He held out a paper plate of cookies.
"We want to report a crime," Dink said, taking a cookie and sitting on one of the chairs in the office.
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- 17.05.31
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- The Lucky Lottery
- Josh and Ruth Rose each took one, then sat next to Dink.
Josh broke his cookie in half and gave a chunk to Pal.
Officer Fallon leaned on his elbows.
"I'm listening," he said.
Dink told him about the lottery tickets stolen from Lucky's house.
Officer Fallon let out a low whistle when Dink said "seven million dollars."
Ruth Rose continued, telling Officer Fallon about visiting Lucky's grand-father.
And Josh finished by telling about their talk with Dot Calm.
He slid his drawing out from under his jacket and showed it to Officer Fallon.
"She told us his name is Joe," he said.