Chapter 17
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CAPTAIN ARNOLD JOHNSON sat back in his chair and stared out his window. Given the location of his office in the center of the station, the window didn’t open to the outside, but it did transport him to another time and place. The bright painting of a glass window with a farmhouse, barn, and horse stable in the distance took the captain back to his childhood days in upstate New York, and made him wonder how different his life would have been had he stayed to work the land. As the eldest child, the farm was his for the taking, but Arnold Johnson decided on a city life and turned over ownership to his younger brother. The varied challenges of managing the police station in Irishtown stood in sharp contrast to the standard routine of managing a small farm—Captain Johnson o
