Bertrand R. Brinley by The Mad Scientists' Club

Author:The Mad Scientists' Club
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-08-26T00:44:20+00:00

"I agree," said Chief Putney. "Maybe if we ignore him he'll go away."

"Don't be silly," said the Mayor. "This kind doesn't go away. We've got to get him down from there before he ruins the whole Founders Day ceremony."

"What would you suggest, your Honor?"

"You're a chief of police," said the Mayor. "I'd suggest you start earning your salary." And the Mayor turned and smiled and waved at the crowds again.

"Did you call me a nut?" came the voice from the mannequin.

The Mayor looked up and flapped his cheeks in and out again.

"I'm not a nut. I'm a Mexican jumping bean," said the mannequin. "Wanna see me jump?"

By this time the open area around the monument had become crowded with people, all pushing against each other, trying to get a closer view of what was going on. The Mayor was still standing in the back seat of the open touring car, holding his arms up in the air and trying to get the crowd to be quiet. "Ladies and gentlemen!" he said, trying to sound as loud and important as he could.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" echoed the mannequin.

The Mayor looked up at the mannequin and said, "Shut up!"

"Shut up!" repeated the mannequin to the crowd. There was a great laugh.

"Fellow citizens!" said the Mayor.

"Fellow citizens!" said the mannequin.

"I implore you to pay no attention to the man on top of the monument," said the Mayor. "Your able chief of police, Harold Putney, and the fire department, I am sure, will manage to get him down safely."

"If they come near me I'll jump!" said the mannequin.

The Mayor flapped his cheeks in and out again.

"Pay no attention to that unfortunate man up there,". he said. "He needs all the help and understanding we can give him."

"I don't need help, but you do!" said the mannequin.

By this time Henry and I were laughing so hard Mortimer could hardly keep his face straight. He had to shut off the transmitter until we calmed down. The crowd was milling around Mayor Scragg's car, making suggestions about how to get the nut down off the monument. A bunch of kids were standing on the bleachers at the edge of the crowd yelling for him to jump.

"When'll we let him go?" I asked.

"Pretty quick now. Then we'll turn the show back to his Honor," said Henry.

He switched on the ham outfit. "We'd better see if we can reach Jeff and the others."

Jeff and Dinky and Freddy Muldoon were supposed to be somewhere out west of Strawberry Lake. When Henry reached them, they were sitting on a hilltop where they could see the Town Hall and the Square through binoculars. Henry checked the wind direction from the weather vane on top of Town Hall and suggested to Jeff that they move to another hill a little farther south. This was important to our plan.

We looked out on the Square again, and the crowd was still milling about, pointing up at the dummy and hollering to him. He just stood there

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