Michael Malone - Weebly

"Something about your ad?" Spend time with Lime,
and spend less.
"No, guess I'm going to go with it. Can't catch a fly
without honey, and honey costs money." Lime snorted.
Suddenly he snapped his face into solemnity as if he
were going to salute somebody. "It's those damn dirty
letters, A.A. What's being done about them? Zero,
goose egg, that's what. Now women and children are
being scared out of their ever-loving minds by all this
filth."
"Oh, I don't think so."
"Hell, yes, they are. Hell, yes. Lives are being
threatened, did you know, that?"
"Like whose?"
"Like mine, old buddy" was the triumphant reply.
Bayes was surprised. "You got one of the letters?"
Frankly, he had thought the anonymous scandal monger
who had begun a few months ago to address
accusatory notes first to the town's public officers, then
to its private citizens, was interested only in Dingley
Falls's civic and social leaders, neither of which Limus
Barnum could claim to be.