What I want to know is which fool – walking around Dare County – torched Marc Basnight’s restaurant? That would be akin to burning down Don Corleone’s olive oil business.

At first when I read the News and Observer headline – “SBI Blames Arson for Fire at Basnight’s Café” – I thought (for one second) maybe the joke going around months ago about the restaurant mysteriously burning down the day after federal investigators interviewed a Basnight associate might not have been a joke – but the SBI says Basnight’s completely in the clear and the newspaper says Basnight lost a million dollars on the fire, so, if it wasn’t an accident, someone in Dare County’s in big trouble. They picked the last restaurant on earth anyone with any sense would burn.

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