#168: Undercover Overachiever

Barnes presented himself at the office of Student Activities Director Ernie Penn Pierson promptly at eight-thirty Friday morning, tattered oboe case under his arm, to register late for the Robert Louis Stevenson Senior High School Summer Arts Camp. After he filled out the requisite paperwork, Ernie told him, “The camp’s half over, you know. Next week is the second and final week. And we knock off early today; you won’t get to some of your workshops until Monday.”

#167: The Scene of the Crime

John Bradford pulled into the visitors parking lot of Garden City Osteopathic Hospital in his 1978 Ford Fairlane with copyboy Barnes along for the ride. “You wait here,” he told Barnes. “Read your comic books.”