Vera quickly returns to the office to report on this scoop, which soon has the entire town all a-flutter. Otto was stabbed, and the knife is still lodged in his back.
To his horror, he discovers that the toad wasn’t a mere victim of misadventure. What Orville lacks in imagination, he makes up for in authority, quickly securing a boat and, ahem, fishing Otto’s body out of the water. Vera stared back at the brown bear, suspicious. “Fish, I’d guess.” Orville looked blankly at the fox. “What’s he hoping to find?” she asked, curious. “The chief took the police boat on a fishing expedition.” “I’ll have to commandeer a boat,” Orville growled on the way. Vera tags along with him as he makes his way to the local sawmill in search of help, and takes the opportunity to ask questions for her coverage:
In the absence of the police chief, Deputy Orville Braun has taken charge of corpse recovery, only to find, to his chagrin, that Otto’s body has drifted further into the waters than he can safely reach from shore.
Gladys’s colleague Vera Vixen hears about this and hightails it to check out the scene. Hovering closer, she discovers the floating corpse of town curmudgeon Otto Sumpf and quickly flies off to alert the authorities. Gossip columnist Gladys Honeysuckle is on her way to work one morning when she spies something unusual in the waters of the millpond. Welcome to the quiet northern town of Shady Hollow, populated by anthropomorphic woodland creatures peacefully going about their daily business.
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