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to live with us after her husband died and was like one of
the family. .

After-Ehe hugs, kisses, and handshakes were over,
Uncle Mark patted Tom on the shoulder. "It has been
mighty dull around here while you've been gone," he said.

, Uncle- Mark should know. He was the town marshal
and a deputy sheriff. He had spent a lot of time in the past
telling people'why fee couldn't arrest Tom, The Great

Brain always made sure he didn't break any laws when
pulling off one of his swindles.




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Papa stared steadily at Tom. "And you had better
see to it that things stay that way, T.D.," he said.

Papa called all of us boys except Frankie by our ini-
tials. All male Fitzgeralds in our family had the same
middle name of Dennis because it was a tradition. But for
my money, Papa telling Tom to keep things dull was like
telling a fellow standing in a rain storm not to get wet,

We left the depot and started walking up Main Street
which, as in most Utah towns, was lined on both sides with
trees planted by early Mormon pioneers. Adenville had a
population of about two thousand Mormons, four'hun-
dred Protestants, and only about a hundred Catholics.
We didn't have a Catholic church. Protestants and Catho-
lics went to the Community Church. Papa ofteja said that
any church was better than no church at all. The only yme
we Catholics saw a priest was for one week out of'the year
when a Jesuit missionary priest came f6 town. л ^

Adenville was one of the few towns our size that had
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electric lights and telephones. There were wooden side-
walks in front of the places of business. East of the railroad
tracks were a couple of saloons, the Sheepmen's rtotel,
the livery stable, a rooming house, and a couple of stores.
Biit most of the places of business and-the residential dis-