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The Investigators, Inc. The Stray Cat Mystery. Chapter 14. End of Wemyss.
The next day Wemyss was eating his breakfast in his hotel suite, which is the entire top floor of the hotel, which he also owns. “I hope everything is ready for the meeting later this morning,” said Wemyss. “Yes sir,” said Hugh, “the buyers will be here at precisely 11am as you wished.” “Good, good,” said Wemyss, “after that we will pay a visit to those Investigators and tell them to leave, or else.” However, a short time later, another of his top men came to see Wemyss with some bad news. “What is it Walter?” asked Wemyss.
“Bad news sir,” he said, “every shipment of drugs and guns, Quebec City, Paris, Berlin and London have all been hijacked and completely disappeared. The drivers of the trucks can’t remember a thing. When they pulled into their destination drop off points their trucks were empty of our cargo.” “What??” he exclaimed, “How could they be empty of the drugs and guns?” “Someone must have stopped the trucks and emptied all of our stuff so only the regular cargo was left,” said Walter, “but why the drivers can’t remember anything is odd. And it happened to all of them which is also odd. It must have been a large outfit to accomplish that.”
“But no one knew of those shipments and when they would arrive except me!” Wemyss exclaimed, “I planned this out perfectly because it was our largest shipment ever! We can’t replace that for weeks and our customers are here now.” Angel went in with Walter and planted a few listening devices in the office for later. She then left with Walter too. The meeting was held and the customers were not happy with this news, but there was nothing they could do, so they left and went to a restaurant for lunch. Dawn then came into the restaurant, took a chair and put it at the table with the six men.
She introduced herself as Dawn Walker, leader of the Night Owls and said she heard about the trouble they were having. They asked how they knew and she smiled, putting a small item on the table. “Listen,” she said. They heard Wemyss talking to some of his men and telling them this could be fantastic news. He had a large amount of drugs in safe hiding which he could sell these men and with a substantial markup. Since drugs would be impossible to get anywhere else on such short notice, he could raise the price on this supply and they would have to pay.
The customers in the restaurant were not happy listening to this. “If you decide to buy from him anyway,” said Dawn, “ask to see the entire amount you are buying before paying, because he no longer has those drugs. I happen to know those drugs went up in flames along with his house. However, I can sell you those drugs for half the original price.” She tossed them each a small packet which they inspected. They were satisfied so she said she would be in touch later. Wemyss then called these men back to his suite and they went. As they got off the elevator, two guards were waiting to search them for weapons as usual, but the customers pulled out their guns and shot the guards.
Then they went into the room where Wemyss and the other men were waiting. Wemyss made a fatal mistake, his room was so soundproof, because he liked it quiet, that they didn’t hear the gunshots. The customers came in and shot Wemyss and his men, then left. But as they came out of the hotel the police were waiting for them and all were charged with first degree murder once they found Wemyss and his men. Wemyss was so confident that he would be around for a long time, that he had no will and no living relatives.
The government took control of his corporation and it was sold, in pieces to a few bidders including Mandar and Baldwin Corporations, the very two that Wemyss hoped to destroy. Once the police had the computers from Wemyss they were able to identify all the people that worked for him, including the police officers, jail and prison guards and it even included bankers, members of parliament, judges and lawyers, even nurses and doctors. All of them were arrested quickly before they could flee. We turned over everything to the police that we had taken from Wemyss. Unfortunately the gems were never found, but perhaps one day Callison will remember more about where she hid them.
He had quite the criminal empire, but it crumbled rather quickly due to one lone stray cat that nearly died trying to save his newly adopted human. Later we took Callison back to her parents home to pick up some things she wanted to hopefully find and keep, including her toy cat, Fuzzy. To our amazement it looked identical to our toy cat, Fluffy, only a different color. Carolyn was soon restoring Fuzzy to it’s original ability, and upgrading it a bit too, just like our Fluffy. I can hardly wait for Fluffy and Fuzzy to meet each other, it should be a purrfectly fun time!
Fuzzy may have been a lone stray cat, but he is now surrounded by 26 other feline friends. Callison has no family either, but she is now surrounded by, well, a lot, of new adopted sisters! And a brother too. It might take her a while to get used to the fact of living with ghosts though, and numerous children. One day Steffie was showing Callison the stair slide just as Misty was coming up to visit me. However, Misty saw the stairs convert to the slide, and knowing that Steffie always stayed on the same side, she just stepped over to the other side, smiling that for once she would be safe.
However, Callison decided to try it out too because it looked like a lot of fun, so, down she went. “Wheeeeeeeee!” yelled Steffie and she slid past Misty. Then Misty continued up the slide, not knowing what awaited her. “Yahoooooo!” yelled Callison. Misty’s eyes got real wide and ‘whump, flop, flop, flop, flooomp!’ “Auntie Misty,” complained Steffie, “you spoiled Auntie Callison’s first time!” “I didn’t know there were hazards,” said Callison. “I should have stayed in bed,” groaned Misty. Another case ended, another fun day begins.
The End. Another Case Will Begin Soon. ©2026 Steve McLeod.
The Investigators, Inc. The Stray Cat Mystery. Chapter 13. Woes For Wemyss.
Cristy and the other computer girls have been working overtime, as have the Black Wolves, looking for the weaknesses of Wemyss. He must have some and we have now discovered them. This should put Wemyss out of business more quickly than anything, hopefully. We will let his own people do the work for us and they will do it quickly too I’m quite sure. The Black Wolves found out about a major shipment of drugs going to Wemyss in Canada, but also another in the UK and his warehouse in Europe, which happens to be in Berlin.
The Black Wolves were able to find out when and where the shipments were going to be delivered and how it will happen. That makes everything so much easier for us. Dawn and her Night Owls plus Misty and her Sneakers will be needed to help with this. I didn’t really like having everyone out at the same time, but there was no other way to do it since these shipments were happening at precisely the same time in each place. In Canada the shipment was being sent to Quebec City so the Wolves will take care of that one.
However, I had Sky bring Mac, Rock and Clarence back to Scotland to help Dawn and her Night Owls and Misty and her Sneakers. Sky and her Bad Girls are heading down to London to stop the shipment there. Kat and her Wildcats have flown to Berlin to pick up the shipment heading there. Three large moving trucks will be delivering the drugs and guns in each shipment to a Wemyss pickup point. However, they will be intercepted before ever reaching their intended destinations. The fire that had been started out at Wemyss’ house was quickly extinguished by the fire department since there is a fire hydrant right in front of his place.
Wemyss made sure of that, even though he lives outside of the city of Aberdeen. He still gets city water out there though, and sewer. After all, he is an important man in this area, so the city and nearly everyone else bends over backwards to satisfy him. That just might change soon though. I doubt that Wemyss and his corporation will be around much longer. He owns several companies all over the UK and Europe, plus a few in Canada, but rather than putting all of his own money into these places, investors put their money into them instead.
But they are on the run right now because things are already not looking so good for Wemyss and his corporation. So many are pulling out while they can. Others are hoping to weather the storm figuring that things will turn around and get back to normal. Not if we can do anything about it. I went to talk with Callison again today to see if I can find out some other information about Wemyss. She may not know anything though, but perhaps her father told her some things about the time he worked for Wemyss. “Yes, he told me many things about Mr. Wemyss,” she said, “but that is all old information now so I doubt it would help you much.”
“That’s okay,” I said, “sometimes men like Wemyss don’t change things if what they are doing is working. Such as, where would he keep all that money he makes from his drug dealings, guns and other things.” “Wemyss never did trust banks too much,” she said, “although his profits from legitimate businesses went into the bank, or he would invest it. Most of his money is tied up in investments, mostly in real estate. But his drug money and other such earnings he always kept in two safes, the big one in the basement and there is an even larger safe behind that big safe.
It can only be accessed from the back of the first safe, though I have no idea how. All my father said was that it was quite tricky, it has a combination lock but you can’t see that lock except a certain way. Father just said he had to use a special light to see the combination lock, then you just press the numbers in the right order. But if you press any of the numbers in the wrong order, you will get electrocuted.” I told this information to Mac and he understood what I was talking about right away.
Angel will be there to protect him. I could send her back to Aberdeen since Jennifer was able to come back home now, and Kitty will also be there. Only Jennifer and Frisky are needed at the chateau for now. Wemyss is staying at his hotel in the city right now until his house has been fixed up again which makes this a perfect time to rob the thief. Angel took Mac and Clarence to the basement while Kitty took Rock around to take care of the guards on the main floor, that way he could stay invisible and safe. Dawn and her Night Owls are a distraction outside, by using a new electrical invention by Carolyn which will disengage the electrical operated gate and open it for them.
Then they drove in, stopped out front and jumped out of their vans. The guards came running but they were easily taken care of by the Night Owls. All this commotion brought 4 guards, of the 10 inside, running to the door, but suddenly this huge man stood in front of them, appearing out of nowhere. Rock started punching and all four men were on the floor, either dead or knocked out cold. Three more were in another room, two watching TV and one doing something on a desk top computer. Suddenly that computer smashed to pieces right in front of the man and the other two asked what happened.
“No idea,” he said, “it’s like the thing exploded!” He was backing away from the desk as he said that and suddenly he was in the air and fell hard onto the floor! The other two looked on in unbelief when Rock was standing in front of them and he punched both knocking them out cold. Three more came running into the room with guns out but they dropped them quickly when they got too hot. Rock grabbed one and threw him against the wall while Kitty took care of the other two.
Meanwhile, Mac was inside the first safe with his light and working on the other combination lock while Angel protected him. He opened it on the third try. “I’m getting rusty,” he said, “it should have only taken me two tries.” The amount of money in that safe was astounding, but the amount of gold was more astounding. I told them to take all of the gold and one tenth of the cash, then burn the rest. Then I said to wait until I talked with Fergus.
He agreed to take the gold and whatever cash I wanted, then to burn the remainder, that way Wemyss would have no way to recover any of it. They used Catalina’s fire bombs to get things started all over the house this time, including the money scattered about here and there. Then they used some surprise packages to blow up several fire hydrants so the fire department couldn’t put the fire out easily. They took all the guards outside before burning the house though. I would love to see the look on Wemyss’ face when he gets all this news later.
To Be Continued. ©2026 Steve McLeod.
