The Philatelist. D.H. Coop

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      “Now why the devil would someone do that?” he asked himself.

      Continuing through the album, he noticed that at the end of the stamps from each country, there were a number of pages similar to the first page—but these pages had no words under the stamps. There was only a name at the top of the page, followed by a series of numbers.

      “I wonder why someone would go to all the effort to make pages like this?” CE said, talking to himself again. “Well, this is a nice little mystery I can play with.”

      The next day, CE finished his reports and put them into the mail. He had remembered his first fire run and how the captain had CE fill out the report. The chief told CE to place the cause of fire in the back seat of the car as “due to smoking.”

      “Captain, the driver does not smoke!’ CE pointed out.

      “Rookie,” the captain replied, “some other idiot tossed the cigarette out his window, and it blew into this jerk’s back seat. The wind from the open window fanned the embers. It happens all the time.”

      That was when CE realized that the causes of fires in many fire reports were attributed to smoking to save time. What was surprising was that cigarettes got the inflammatory reputation and not the matches. After all, cigarette burns on everything, from tables and shelves to floors and sofas, were testimonials to the fact that cigarettes were poor fire starters.

      The case he had just put into the mail was a case in point. The fire had started in the master bedroom closet, and there were cigarette burns on almost every surface. The first engine company on the scene placed the origin of the fire as a cigarette. CE’s report to the owner’s insurance company stated that the fire started in the closet on the floor. The origin was a common white wax candle. He went on to state that the floor under the candle was not burned and that this type of candle takes forty-seven minutes to burn down—which, in CE’s opinion, explained why the family was out of the house thirty minutes before the fire started.

      He also made note of the fact that a high percentage of closet fires are started by children playing with matches. It was most likely not arson, since the family dog was in the house when the fire started. Family pets are removed in most attempted arsons to collect insurance. It was his professional opinion that the fire was accidental rather than intentional and that it was started by a child or children. He recommended follow-up in the area of family counseling.

      The next day, CE received a call and had to make a trip back up the state. He packed his suitcase and then looked at the international album.

      Why not? Maybe I can look into some of the history of this album while I’m away, he thought as he tucked the album into his suitcase.

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