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had to say was gonna be important so I pretended like I had work to do over by the bins where they were talking.”
    Gloria nodded.  Kenny was turning out to be a good spy, uh – detective, she corrected herself.
    “They were discussing something about some guy the DEA.  That stands for Drug Enforcement Agency,” he explained.
    “Right,” she agreed.  Gloria was old, but she wasn’t that old.  She knew what the DEA stood for.  Every good detective knew what that stood for!
    Kenny shoved his hands in his uniform pockets and rocked back on his heels.  “Anyways, the DEA had this guy under surveillance but nothing concrete.  They said he was some kind of king pin and that he ran a drug cartel in our area.”
    “How does this involve Belhaven’s post office?” she wondered.
    “That’s what I was getting to.  The cops pulled the guy over for some minor traffic infraction and when they searched his car, right there in the front seat was a box full of crank! Not just a little, but thousands of dollars’ worth.”
    This one was over Gloria’s head.  She had to ask.  “What’s crank?”
    Kenny raised his eyebrows.  “You know.  Methamphetamine!”
    Gloria watched almost every episode of Detective on the Side, her favorite crime series on TV, and she had never heard the word crank used before.  She added it to her mental dictionary.  “You don’t say,” she murmured.
    “The box the crank was in – it came through Belhaven’s post office.  That’s when the FBI started an undercover investigation of the post office.  It’s being used to traffic drugs!”
    Gloria shook her head.  “That can’t implicate Ruth!  What would that have to do with her?”
    Kenny pointed to his chest.  “You wanna know what I think? I think the investigators think it’s an insider job.  Someone inside the post office is involved.”
    “But Ruth?  C’mon, that’s stretching it,” Gloria argued.
    “Well, she is the one with access to everything there at the post office.  Unlike me and Seth.  We have limited access.”
    Gloria tapped the side of her cheek.  That part was true!  She would be the most logical suspect.  She opened the post office every day and closed it each night.  She was the only one with keys to the entire place.  But Ruth? 
    Kenny looked down at his watch.  “I gotta go.  I haven’t even started my route yet.  You were my first stop.” He jumped through the open door of his truck.
    “You’ve been very helpful, Kenny.  You’d make a good detective,” she complimented.  She needed him to keep his ear to the ground so a little buttering up never hurt to inspire him to help.
    He started the engine and shifted the truck into gear.  “I miss Ruth,” he said.  “It’s boring without her.”
    Gloria grinned.  “I’ll let her know you said that.  I’m sure she’ll appreciate it.”
    “Yeah. I heard she was staying out here at the farm ‘til this is over,” he answered.
    Gloria nodded.  “Believe me, she’d be much happier back at work.”
    Kenny pulled out just as Ruth pulled in.  Gloria could see her van was filled to the roof with stuff. 
    She pulled the van over to the barn doors and waited while Gloria shoved the barn door open and stepped to the side.
    “You’re going to get rid of all of that?” Gloria asked.
    Ruth stuck a hand on her hip and nodded at the pile.  “Yeah.  At first I had just a few things but then I got to thinking and I made this little rule for myself.  This is how I decided whether to keep it or to junk it.”
    Ruth held up an index finger.  “One.  Have I used this in the last year?  Two. Can I still fit into it? If the answer is no, it’s got to go!”
    Gloria chuckled.  “Those are good rules of thumb.  I’ll have to use that myself,” she decided.
    The girls made quick work of pulling the boxes from the van and stacking them neatly off to one side. 
    “I ran into Margaret on my way through town and told her about