The

                      Painter of the Night




Someone called in a

                                            report

that she had
seen                       a man painting in the dark over by the
pond.

A police car

                                            was dispatched to go investigate.
The two officers with their                       big
flashlights                       walked all around the pond, but
found nothing suspicious.                                             hatcher was the
younger of the                       two, and he said to Johnson,

"What do you                       think

he was pointing?" Johnson
looked bemused and said, "The dark,

                                            stupid.


What else

                      could he have been painting?" Hatcher,
a little hurt, said, "Frogs                                             in the Dark, Lily
pads in the Dark, Pond                       in the Dark. Just as many things exist in the dark as
they do in the light." Johnson paused,

                                            exasperated.

Then
Hatcher added, "I'd like to see them.                       Hell,
I might even buy one.                       Maybe there's more out
there                       than we know. We are the police, after all.

We need to know."