For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
After those 3 shots Carine began to fall but I held her. She was limp. Kat came running over with Candace and they took Carine. Then a thumping noise to my right. I turned and looked. There was a man with a gun lying on the floor. I turned a bit more and saw Kristina standing there with her gun still out. She was the one that had shot, not the man. “I saw his gun in the moonlight,” said Kristina, “but I could not see who it was or exactly where. That is why the 3 shots, I wanted to make sure I stopped him.”
Right then Rock came crashing through the front door. When he is in a hurry, he does not bother to open doors, he just goes through them, or smashes them open. Meanwhile, Benji’s men tried to escape out the back way in a couple of dark vans. But before they even made it to the road a number of cars with Baldwin’s men had blocked their escape. The police were with them as well. A short gun fight erupted but Benji’s men gave up quickly.
Rock and Annelie were coming to the front door when they heard the 3 shots, that is when Rock came through the door. “Everyone okay?”, he asked. “Yes,” I said, ” we are okay, just a little shook up.” Rock and I went over to the man on the floor and Rock turned him over. It was John! Annelie checked him, he was very much dead this time, shot through the heart. “You finally got him,” said Rock, “that is great!” “No,” I said, “it wasn’t me, Kristina got John.” “Great shooting Kristina,” said Rock. “Thanks Rock,” she said. I went over and gave her a hug too.
“Thank you Kristina,” I said. “I know you wanted to get him yourself,” she began, “but he would have killed you.” “I am just glad he has finally been stopped. He is responsible for so many killings these past years,” I said. Then I started shaking and fell. Rock came over, “hey, he is covered with blood!” “He’s in shock,” said Annelie, “get that blanket from the car.” Rock ran out and brought it in for me. Benji got to his feet and “Thwock!, Thwock!”, down he went again. “That is Benji,” said Candace, “guess Carine won’t have to worry about him anymore.”
The cats came slowly out of hiding. Meow.=He hurt my adopted human Carine, not want him get away. Muffin and me talk and decide to stop him total. Meow,meow.=Yep, me agree with MC about this. “Hey, it is okay you two,” said Kat. It was off to the hospital for me. Carine had just fainted from all the excitement, something she just was not used to dealing with yet. But aside from cuts, bruises and losing some blood, I was okay and rejoined the others at the hotel.
The next morning we returned to the old house even though Kat really did not want me to go along, she figured I should be resting still. “I will rest when we get back home,” I said, “we only know part of Bernard’s secret so far and that is that John and Lydia were working together. Now we need to find out what John was looking for and obviously never found.” It was a nice sunny day which will make it easier to look around this house. But first, back to the painting above the fireplace.
The folds in the woman’s clothes made a perfect arrow, which pointed straight…down. Nothing there but the fireplace hearth. “Perhaps it opens,” suggested Jennifer. “Look around for something that might open it,” I said to everyone. Just then we heard that same kind of moaning sound which definitely came from the top floor. Kat and Jenny were first up there but saw no one.
The cats sniffed around, looking for a different opening than the one we knew about. Meow,meow!=Me find something! Just looked like part of the wall. There was a small picture on the wall right beside this spot and it was permanently fixed to the wall. But, I could move it a bit and sure enough, a narrow door opened. But there was just a small opening in the wall with nowhere to go. We looked all over but there was no sign of this going anywhere. Very strange really.
We went back downstairs, but as we came to the second floor that same moaning began, this time from one of the bedrooms. The cats ran quickly to the room and “Thwock!”, MC must have got someone. We all went down there and found our “ghost” which was a young woman with glowing clothes. Fortunately MC had only used his rubber ball so she was okay, just sitting on the floor with a very sore head…
To Be Continued.
Β©2022 Steve McLeod.
So… the mystery goes on?? Well now that John is out of the way!! Perhaps you can get to the bottom of this, and maybe Carine will be the lucky recipient of a small fortune??π€π€π€«π€«ππ
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Hard to believe we won’t have to worry about John anymore. But there is still Gregory to worry about at some point I’m sure. Yes, considering all that Carine has been through, it would be nice if she inherited something.π€π±ββοΈπΎπΎπ±ββοΈπ©π©π©π©π±ββοΈππππ΅οΈββοΈ Now, who is this ghost?
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I’m sure we will get some details tomorrow!πππ
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Unless the ghost gets away. They’re hard to hold onto.πππ»
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Well this one wasn’t to fast or see through if it got caught!!ππ
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Yep, the cats were quick on the draw this time!πΎπΎπ»π©
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Quick draw MC Muffin!!ππ
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Actually it was just MC MC!ππΉ
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Well she was in support of him I’m sure..ππ
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Yep, she was behind him all the way!ππΈπΈ
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She’s a sweet kitten πΈ β₯οΈ
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Yep, sure is. I wonder what our next case will be like? Oops, not finished this one yet.π¬π¬
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That’s right.. keep that horse hitched to this wagon until it’s done. I for one want to know what it could possibly be that drove John to such vile neasures!π€¨
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Yes, I would like to know too!π€π³π
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Good! I knew you would want to know also!!ππ€
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Yep, the suspense is killing me! Oops, have to go put the bird feeders away, be right back.πββοΈπββοΈπββοΈπββοΈπββοΈπββοΈ
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Okie doke
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I’m back now.π
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I can tell!!ππ Welcome back!π
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Thank you so very much for your cordial attitude toward me.π
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And the very same to you!!ππ
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Trying to be sarcastic?π€¨
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Why absolutely Not! You are most cordial tonight! I was wondering if it was actually you!! I thought maybe Muffin took over when you fell asleep π΄ π€π€
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Ha and Ha, Ha. Muffin is still, oh wait, she is awake now and trying to get my attention though I’m not sure what she wants. Soon as I get up she just sits there. Very strange.π€π
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Awwww…. that was so nice of you to warm the chair up for her to sleep on..ππ
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She’s curled up on me, not the chair.πππΉ
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What?? You didn’t get up?? Now you’re stuck until she decides she’s done with her prebedtime nap and decides to take her after prebedtime nap before going g to bed π π΄ π
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She doesn’t take an after prebedtime nap. Are you trying to say she does nothing but sleep? Wait until I tell her that one!π¬π¬
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Oh no.. I would never presume that!!πππ¬π¬
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You already did.π€πππ³
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Shhhhπ€«π€«π€«π€« don’t wake her up!!π¬π¬πππ§π§
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She’s awake and reading everything we say.ππΎ
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She doesn’t want to talk to me does she??π¬π¬ππ
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No, she just turned her back.
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Ohhh…. yikes!π¬π¬
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That went quick ! The picture is really interesting…looking forward to the next chapter ! π΅οΈββοΈπ©π©π©π©πΌπΌ
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Well, the action was all in the last chapter, this was just the ending of it. But it’s not over yet.π€π±ββοΈπΎπΎπ±ββοΈπ©π©π©π©ππππ΅οΈββοΈ
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