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Mister Justice
Doris Piserchia


I

Jan. 6, 2002: Three men named Darby, Scarpi and Olsen built a large
coal fire on a hilltop in Pennsylvania. The youngest man, Olsen, seemed
uneasy and frequently turned to look down the hill, as if he were expecting
to see someone.

Time passed and the fire became a roaring cauldron.

"How much longer do we have to wait?" said Olsen. "Are you sure he's
coming?" He was staring down the hill and didn't know that his two
companions were closing in behind him.

They picked him up and threw him into the center of the flames. He
gave a hideous scream and died.

The man named Scarpi took a handkerchief from his pocket and
rubbed at the coaldust on his hands. While he was cleaning himself, he
absently glanced toward his right. Suddenly he yelled.

"Get that man."

But there was no man. The hilltop was barren of shrubbery and so was
the slope for a quarter-mile around them. Scarpi finally decided that what
he had glimpsed was a mirage made by the heat of the fire. He couldn't
have seen a man crouching behind a small rock taking photographs of
them. His eyes had been playing tricks on him.




Jan. 6, 2033: Two men named Scarpi and Darby rode in a black sedan
on a deserted road in the mountains of New York. They picked up a
hitchhiker along the way. An hour later, they rounded a bend in the road
and braked to a quick stop in order to avoid crashing into a fallen tree. A
man came walking out of the woods. He paused by the driver's door,
yanked it open and stuck a gun against Darby's head.