Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything - Plot & Excerpts
—ANN LANDERS First thing I did when we got back to Honeybelle’s house was to give Fred a bath. He smelled like every dog that had ever done time in a kennel—more like dried poop than anything else. I lathered him up twice with the shampoo I used on Miss Ruffles. He stood still for the indignity of being squirted with the hose, his eyes full of sorrow. After the final rinse when I bundled him into a towel, his stumpy tail gave a disinterested wag. I gave him some kibble, which he ate with care, as though his teeth hurt. Afterward, he wandered out onto the lawn and went to sleep in a patch of sunlight. I heard him sigh. To stay out of range of interrogation by Mae Mae and Mr. Carver, I spent the afternoon cleaning the pool with the long-handled hose, trying to plan a way to confront Posie without breaking the law. I kept an eye on Fred, too. I worried his low energy might attract notice. To me, he was obviously not Miss Ruffles. But that evening at dinner, Mr. Carver and Mae Mae paid no attention to him.
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