For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Well, Chung talked to me, then Galyna talked to me. They both said the same thing, I need to rest. Then Baldwin said the same thing. Sigh. How can I rest around here? Everywhere I look I see Kat. Not literally, of course, but I think of her, and that just causes more stress. I need a vacation, just get away from everything and everyone.
“Well Muffin, what do you think,” I began, “we go on vacation, just you and me, oh, and MC too of course.” Meow,meow!=And Storm too, not nice to leave him out. “Okay, Storm too, if he wants to come with us,” I agreed, “no go get those two, but do not say anything to anyone else just yet.” Off she went trying hard to get up speed on that slippery floor, then sliding down the hall.
Soon she was back with the other two. Storm was excited that we would let him come with us. “Where are all your vacation brochures?” I asked. They then pulled out boxes from under the bed. “I think you have more than normal,” I said. Meow.=Just got new batch in mail yesterday. Amazing that so many places still use those brochures. While we were looking through them and having our usual fun time ripping and tearing them apart into little pieces, the bedroom door opens.
“Do you not believe in knocking?” I ask. “Nope,” said Jennifer. She then looked around at what we were doing. “NO.” she said firmly. “Now wait a min…” I began. “NO.” she said again. Then the bedroom door opened again and in came Sigurbjorn. “Do you not knock?” I asked her. “Nope”, she said. “I think there is an echo in here”, I answered. She then looked around.
“NO.” she said. “Now I know there is an echo in here. The cats and I are going on a vacation together so I can relax for a while,” I said, “I am doing what the doctor said.” “NO!”, they both said together. “You cannot go by yourself,” said Jenny, “it is in the rule book, no one may go anywhere by themselves, there will be at least 3 at a time going anywhere.” “There will be four of us,” I said pointing to the cats.
“That does not count,” said Jenny. “I agree,” said Sigurbjorn, “the rule is referring to 3 people, sorry kittens.” Meow,meow.=Sugar right, it say 3 people. “Hey, I thought you were on my side,” I said. She smiled. Still wish I knew how they learned to do that. “So, that means I have to go with you,” said Jenny. “And me as well,” said Sigurbjorn. “Then the whole team will want to come,” I said, “and every time we go as a team, someone finds out we are a PI team, and we get involved in a case. That is not relaxing.”
“We can sneak away at night,” said Jennifer. Meow.=Oh, that a good idea, we be sneaky types. Meowr.=Me like that too, sound like fun. Muffin also agreed. It just might work. “The only problem,” I said, “we are always to let everyone else know what we are doing if we go away somewhere. It is a safety rule.” That cooled off the excitement, so we decided not to go just now.
“Okay, we will put away the brochures, and you must promise not to look at them,” Jenny said to me. “I will not even touch those brochures,” I said, “and neither will the cats.” So, the girls slid the boxes back under the bed. Meow,meow.=Now what we do? No can sneak away without brochures. I looked down the hall, the girls were gone. I closed the door, we do not have locks on doors for safety reasons.
I pulled back the blankets and, some brochures were there. Meow.=Oh, you pull sneaky. “Yep, but nothing is to be said about this,” I told them. We found a nice place, but we cannot make a reservation since all phone calls are recorded and sent to Annelie and Baldwin. That way it makes it difficult for a spy to get into our midst. It also makes it hard to sneak away. This will take some planning, but I am sure we can do it.
Well, everyone is out of the clinic now and doing well. That relieves a lot of stress in itself. Since we had nothing else to do, we all began working on that crazy clue. Storm had never looked at the clue since he does not like puzzles, but on this day, he did glance at it. Meowr.=It look like writing of techy people. “What kind of techy people?” asked Annelie. Meowr.=Azzies techy people from where I born.
“You mean the Aztecs?” I asked. Meowr.=That what I just say, he does need rest. Everyone laughed. I did not see the funny part. Annelie looked it up and it talked about a village in the northland where the fish people live. That part did not make sense. “That might be ‘Finnish’ people,” said Tuva. Now that made sense and we were soon flying to northern Finland to a certain village and…
To Be Continued.
Β©2022 Steve McLeod.
Finland? Now that’s out of the way!! And it’s cold!!π₯Άπ₯Ά I hope you brought warm clothes??
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Well, it’s still summer in our story, so it’s not so bad, although that far north it will still be cool as it is late summer. But what will, or have we, found? Can we get in and out without meeting Mandar? He just might not be in a good mood.π€π©πΌπΌπΌπ΅οΈ
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Well he is a bit odd in that sense so you never which version of him will show up!π¬ Perhaps he’s already found it and moved on already?? You have been on break for quite a while!!
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Yes, but he had not found it or even figured out the clue when we talked about Brenda’s death. So we just might beat him, or meet him, whichever is worse. π¬π΅οΈ
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Perhaps you could offer him a portion of the treasure and join forces and find it together?π€
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I can’t do that, the treasure isn’t ours, we were hired to find it for the rightful heirs, so it goes to them, if we find it first anyway. π€π΅οΈ
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Just sayin… some I s better than none!π
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Well, we are duty bound to fight for it, if necessary, it belongs to the owners, not to Mandar or us. π€π΅οΈ
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Ah huh… I see…. okay then! If it’s fighting you want I’m sure Mandar won’t disappoint πππ
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Well, I don’t want to fight Mandar, I want to get the treasure back to the owners and leave quickly. Let Mandar fight him instead. π€π΅οΈ
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That’s not very nice to make your client fight him..π²π³
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I’m not, but it’s also not in our contract, once we deliver the goods, we can go, he does what he wants. π€π΅οΈ
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By the book!! Good policy!!π
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I will warn him about Mandar though and tell him to put that treasure in a safe place and maybe call the police. It would be a police affair.π€π΅οΈ
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Indubitably!ππ
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He could hire us to protect him and his treasure, but that is not what we do, could get us in trouble with the law. π€π΅οΈ
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You definitely do not want to do that!!π¬π¬
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Precisely, I already spent time in jail in Iceland, that is more than enough for me! ππ΅οΈ
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As it should be for anyone!!ππ
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I think so too. I do not wish to go back, so I will stay away from the “protector” jobs, that’s for the police. ππ΅οΈ
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Smart business decision!π
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I think so too. Although there is more money in the protector racket. Kinda dangerous though. ππ΅οΈ
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As the description implies! ππππ
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Sometimes I think it might actually be safer. π€π΅οΈ
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Well… you do have the advantage of being upfront with the firepower…ππ
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Lots of those protectorites do as well. π¬
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Then everyone knows what the other guy has!!πππ
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But we have secret weapons that the other guy doesn’t know about! π€π΅οΈ
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Perhaps they have the same??π€π
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Not likely, we have Baldwin’s secret weapons companies working for us! ππ΅οΈ
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Then I’m sure you have them at a disadvantage!!ππ
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Unless they ambush us. π€π΅οΈ
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But don’t you have your anti-ambush equipment?π²π³
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You mean staying home and inside?π€π΅οΈ
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Uh…ππ I suppose…πππ
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It might work, getting inside this new chateau won’t be easy for anyone. π€π΅οΈ
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They certainly will have trouble ambushing you there that’s for sure!!π
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Yep, Baldwin did a good job rebuilding it. Now I am not sure I want to stay here. Sigh. ππ΅οΈ
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I can understand the feelings about it.. but they will fade in time as you make new memories.ππ
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True enough, and Baldwin did so much to make this place a fortress!
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π€ still musing π€ yes there something wrong ! π²βοΈ
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Hmm, what will we find up in Finland? Another clue? The treasure? Or trouble? We will find out in the next chapter. π€π©πΌπΌπΌπ΅οΈ
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Glad you are not going on a vacation, now. It would be a case of divide and conquer and a bad idea. At least the team will be together in Finland. No going off by yourself!
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Yes, that is true, dividing right now is not a good idea. But after this case I might need to get away for a while by myself, with the cats. I wonder what we will find in Finland, another clue, the treasure or trouble? We will soon find out. π€π©πΌπΌπΌπ΅οΈ
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