For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
“Now,” said Baldwin, “who are you working for?” “I am a police officer,” he said calmly, “I have ID right here”. And he reached into his pocket. Rock grabbed his arm, twisting it a bit causing some serious pain to the man. Then Rock took out the ID and handed it to Baldwin. “You do not move without permission,” said Baldwin, “or you could get seriously hurt. By the way, you should always show your ID when you arrive, we should not need to ask for it.”
It looked okay but he handed it to Annelie to check it out. “Hmm, a very good fake, but a fake nonetheless,” she said after checking what the real one should be like. “Now,” said Baldwin, “let us start again. And I want the truth or I will let Rock here start breaking some bones. He is very good at that and if he should break your arm, or leg, it will never be the same again. Now, who are you working for?” “I, I, do not really know,” he said very nervously, “they just hired me to play a police officer and do things exactly the way they told me.”
“What do they look like?”, asked Baldwin. “It was just a man and woman, just kind of average. He was my size, gray hair, but did not look old, maybe in his 30s. She was the same height, very pretty, short dark brown hair. I don’t know their names or nothing. They pay me cash each time I need to come here, 5,000 euros.” “Where do you meet them?”, asked Baldwin again. “Just down the road a bit, they pay me as I come out here,” he answered, “I don’t know what they are up to though, nothing, honest.”
“I don’t believe you,” said Baldwin. He then looked at Annelie and Angel and they ran back to the room to stay with Kara, Kat and the cats. “Okay Rock,” said Baldwin. There was some screaming from the man, and he yelled to stop. Rock did. “Ready for some real answers now?”, asked Baldwin. He shook his head, he would. Then he suddenly slumped over and footsteps could be heard of someone running down the hall.
The girls went after whoever it was, but the person disappeared. The man in the chair was dead due to a poison dart that hit him in the neck. Then Baldwin noticed that Darren was gone! Could it have been him that shot the dart and ran off? They all looked around for him, but he was gone. Strangely, Stewart, the butler, did not seem to be bothered at all by what was happening. Elsa certainly was nervous however.
Baldwin and Rock went out to the cottage where Harris lived. He was still in bed but got up and joined them in the castle right away. Harris was quite angry when he found out what had happened, he was ready to join my team and help expose these people. Annelie did a quick check on Harris and found nothing against the man at all. So Baldwin gave Harris a gun, even though he had never used one. But he was given some quick lessons and should be a help if needed.
“Hey boss, look what I found in this guy’s pocket,” Rock said to Baldwin. It was a note which Baldwin read, “You are doing well. If you can find your friends before the time limit at 1am tomorrow, then we will not stop you from taking them and leaving. But if you cannot find them by that time then we will hand them to you, though they may not be breathing. But if you wish to leave now, you can have them back alive now. The choice is yours. Leave your reply on the kitchen table and go back to your room. The ghosts.”
That made everyone angry and Baldwin left the reply. “We will keep looking and if our friends die, we will hunt you down.” They then returned to their room, along with Harris, Stewart and Elsa. Everyone talked for a bit, then Stewart decided to go back to his room and get some sleep. Apparently he was not at all afraid. He had been working here for 12 years and did not believe anyone would harm him.
Harris went down to the kitchen after a while with Rock, Annelie and Elsa to make tea and get something to eat. The note had been taken by the time they got to the kitchen. Elsa went to Annelie and said something to her quietly. Annelie just stared. It was now 2am…
To Be Continued.
ยฉ2022 Steve McLeod.
Interesting ๐ฅฐ
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Thank you very much!๐๐บ
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You are most welcome โค๏ธ
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Body number 3!! Stacking up fast!! They better hurry up!!๐ฌ๐๐ณ๐ฒ
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Yes indeed! But what happened to Darren?๐ค Is he working with the ghosts?๐ฎ Or did he just run because he was scared?๐ง Why doesn’t anyone ever drink coffee?๐ค๐โ
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He very well could be a part if the scoundrels that are behind thus. As far as the coffee โ๏ธ goes… I think everyone is jittery enough! Especially when handling guns!!๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ
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Yep, I think it’s a good possibility. I could use some coffee, but I don’t think the ghosts are planning to give me any. Kristina would like some too.๐คโ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ
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Doesn’t hurt to ask them..๐๐ they just might say yes??๐๐
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I’ll try to remember if I see them again.๐ค๐
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Yeah, btw… you’ve been very quiet in this case! What gives? Usually you are telling us what’s happening with you!๐๐คจ๐ค
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That’s true, giving my team a chance to show their stuff! Besides, there might not be anything happening with Kristina and I except being chained to the rack or some such thing. We will show up sometime I’m sure.๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฎ
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That’s good! I was beginning to miss you ๐๐๐
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Of course there is the possibility we have both been killed already.๐ค๐ฎ๐ฎ
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What??๐ณ๐ณ๐คฏ๐ฒ๐ฒ There goes the whole Investigators Series!!๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ
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That’s okay, Baldwin can take over as team leader. Then they can have a whole series of cases looking for our killers!๐ค๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ
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Ya can’t ki ofc the main character and have it keep going!!๐๐ That’s why people read it! They want to know if you survive… if Baldwin takes over then you have to become Baldwin, which would get even more confusing๐คช๐คช
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I would never kill off Muffin and MC! So the main characters are always safe. Well, they might get hurt, but not killed. I would get confused too, but he does like coffee at least!๐โ
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He likes to spit it into someone’s ear you mean!!๐๐
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That is a fun part.๐
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I’ll have to give that a try!!๐๐
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Here it comes!! Are you ready??๐คญ๐คญ โ๏ธ โ๏ธ
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A good slap on the back should help it do something!๐๐โโ
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It certainly couldn’t hurt!๐๐๐
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Though it could be a bit messy!๐๐๐๐
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That’s why they make wash cloths and laundry Soap ๐งผ ๐๐๐๐
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I always wondered why they had those?๐ค๐๐
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Amazing isn’t it??๐๐
Well off on my walk… back in a little over an hour!๐๐ถโโ๏ธ๐ถโโ๏ธ๐ถโโ๏ธ
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Okay! I’m off to write the next chapter.
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Oh..btw, I have been doing a little house shopping online this morning. I found a couple of very nice ones in a river town about a 45 minute drive west of here. I might go take a look at them this weekend.๐ Bye for now!!
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Oh, that sounds interesting!๐๐บ๐ก
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Yepper..๐๐๐ธ๐ธ
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I hope one of them will work out for you.๐๐ก
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I hope so also. How was your day?๐ค๐
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Not too bad. I didn’t do much, sit and lie down mostly. Sunny today but it was cold, strong north wind. Good day to be inside anyway.
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I can understand you wanting to do that! That wind can be frigid ๐ฅถ๐ฅถ drink more coffee โ๏ธ โ๏ธ ๐๐๐
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It was, I was out with the birds for only 15 minutes and that was enough, I was frozen.๐ฅถ๐
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I feel sorry for those poor little birds!๐ค It surprises me they don’t freeze solid! They don’t have much body mass to generate heat!๐ฅถ
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That’s for sure, that’s why they need to eat all day!๐ง๐ฅถ๐ฆ๐ฅ
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Me too!๐ค๐๐ no wait I’m warm down here… hey maybe that’s why I gained weight??๐๐
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Now there’s a thought, I’ll use that excuse too, it sounds good!๐ค๐๐๐น
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Well it’s just not fair they get to eat all day and stay so tiny!๐๐
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Maybe you should try to eat sunflower seeds all day?๐ค๐๐
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๐๐ ummm… okay.. I would need to to have some water though… do you give the birds water? BTW… where do they find water in the winter?๐๐ค
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You’re joking, there is all kinds of water all over the place in winter, it’s white and cold.๐ค๐๐
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How do they melt it?๐ค
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In their mouth. But ducks drink river water, as do eagles. Many of our summer birds could survive the winter with food, but would die of thirst not being able to drink snow.
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Huh..๐ค๐ค something I never gave much thought to.. Thanks for the info๐
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You are very welcome.๐
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Thank You ๐
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You’re welcome!๐
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Are you still there?๐ค๐
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I’m back, had a little um, attack of pain.
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Ahhh.. ok
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It happens sometimes, settled down now a bit.
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Good! I’m glad you’re more comfortable ๐
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I am? I mean, I am! Am I? I think.๐ค๐ง๐ง
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Relatively so…๐๐
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Thank you.๐
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You’re very welcome!๐
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Good Morning ๐ โ๏ธ ๐
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Good morning Dusty! You were up super early this morning!๐ฎ๐๐
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Almost as early as you!!๐๐๐ I’m working on 530 am. Little at a time!๐๐
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Good for you! I didn’t make it this morning, that walk wore me out.๐๐ถโโ๏ธ
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Probably better to rest up a little.๐๐
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Yes, hopefully I can try again tomorrow, it is supposed to be sunny. And I would like some sunny photos down at the river. It was cloudy yesterday.
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Tomorrow it will be then!๐
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Another dead helper Boy bad guys don’t have long term employees with you around.
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Take time to laugh
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It does seem to work that way doesn’t it?
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I wonder if they get family benefits? ๐ค๐น๐ค
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The fact that they are gone could be a benefit.๐
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Depending on the family ๐ช ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐
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So true!๐ค๐๐น
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It looks like a โ mole โ is in your team ! Your team needs to tread carefully…๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ค๐ฒ๐พ๐พ
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Not in our team, we have a faithful group here now. But these “ghosts” have things planned out rather well which makes things dangerous. Somehow they need to find a way under the castle.๐ค๐ฉ๐พ๐พ๐ฉ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ต๏ธ
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