Chalmette Fever. Chapter 639.

Someone stopped me to tell me that he cannot wait to find out how the monkey versus dog story is going to end up. I know how it ends. I have read the old newspaper accounts. Spoiler alert: the gibbon wins.

I thanked him. I said, “I will try to tie this up as soon as I can. I know I am milking it for all it worth.”

“I don’t mind, Mr. King,” he said. …