Chapter
4
A mournful groan erupted out of the black
ashes. Gingersnap let out a growl and backed up. Then the moan got a little
louder. That drew the attention of the ones talking on the other side. Marley
came to see and Gingersnap looked at her and then looked to the grotesque thing
moving in the far corner.
Even Marley and her friend didn’t go
rushing up. Then finally Marley’s friend Jane went up to investigate. She
gasped. “It’s Mr. Fifer!”
Marley rushed over next and together they
got him out of the thing he was wrapped in. Gingersnap sniffed the smoke that
was coming off of him. He staggered a bit but they steadied him. He mumbled the
whole time. They called an ambulance and within moments they were there tending
to him. Gingersnap was now watching all the action from the back porch of the
bake shop. He remembered the events form the night before. Mr. Grant was
carrying in something long and brought out an object. He could feel it in his
tail, that long object that Mr. Grant was carrying in was Mr. Fifer!
After the ambulance had arrived, a police
car came and inside was a dog! Gingersnap knew it was time to slip back inside
and watch the events from the window. Sophie came in to see what all the ruckus
was about. When she seen the ambulance and police car with the police dog
sniffing about, she went out to talk to Marley and Jane. Gingersnap watched
them all talking but kept his eyes on that large dog. He was sniffing the area
where Mr. Fifer was found. Gingersnap was wondering what was there that caught
his attention. The police officer also went to investigate what he sniffed out.
They spent a lot of time there too.
Sophie came in. “Well, that was some news.
You had quite the adventure. Poor Mr.
Fifer! They say he doesn’t remember much of what happened or how he
ended up in the rubble. That is so strange. I hope he will be okay.”
Sophie went back into the kitchen and
Gingersnap stayed at the window. The ambulance had whisked Mr. Fifer off but
the police man and his dog stayed for a bit longer before they too, took off.
Gingersnap was hungry from all this excitement
so he hopped down to his dish that was empty. He made his way into the kitchen
part where he really wasn’t allowed because he was a cat. Gingersnap went in
anyway as he regarded himself slightly above ordinary cat. James spotted him
first. “Hey big orange guy, I heard of your heroics this morning.”
Gingersnap mewed and rubbed up against his
leg. He mewed a little louder this time. “Ah, you came to tell me to feed you.
I should have known that you would want something.”
James went into the office part and opened
up a can of wet cat food. That got Gingersnap taking even louder. James laughed
as he scooped out some food for him. “There you go.”
As he set the can down he could hear some
loud voices at the front desk. “I better go check that out.”
Even Gingersnap stopped eating for a moment.
His ears perked to a man’s voice. It was Mr. Grant! It sounded like he was
making some demands. Gingersnap snuck around the corner t get a view of the
front desk. There was Mr. Grant as large as life. He was making demands on his
order and he was threatening that it better be ready to go or else! Sophie was
trying to calm him down and James was telling him that he was more than cable
of doing the order. His voice was starting to get as loud as Mr. Grants.
Gingersnap backed up from all the noise.
He did not like this man and wanted him to leave. Finally he left in a huff.
Sophie and James were quite mad about the whole thing when they came back into
the office. Gingersnap hid under the desk.
“The nerve of that man. Who does he think
he is, barging into my shop making demands?”
James shook his head. “Should have told
him to take a flying leap.”
“If he wasn’t paying so much, I would
have,” declared Sophie.
“Well, I better get back to making those
templates. I have about five garden tool designs plus I found some other
designs like a wheel barrel with flowers in it.”
“That would be lovely but I’m sure sour
puss there will have something bad to say. Go ahead make them. I’ll help with
the decorating.”
James left back to the kitchen. Sophie
plopped down on the office chair. She noticed Gingersnap underneath. “Do you
hear all that noise Gingy? I know, that awful man. And I can’t help but wonder
what part he has to play with Mr. Fifer. There is something going on there.”
Gingersnap came out and rubbed up against
her leg. He very much agreed. Before all the noise, he went back to his bowl
and ate up his food. Sophie worked at her desk as Gingersnap washed up getting
ready for his nap.
Suddenly there was a loud noise outside.
They both looked out and there was Mr. Grant marching around the burnt tool
shop and he was not happy. He found the fabric that Mr. Fifer was found in. He
shook his fists up in the air. Sophie looked down at Gingersnap. “What do you
think that is about?”
Gingersnap was thinking that maybe Mr.
Grant wrapped up Mr. Fifer in that fabric and put in there to burn! James came
flying into the office. “Marley just texted me. Mr. Fifer left the hospital and
no one knows where he went.
Sophie looked at James. “Well, Mr. Grant
must want to know too. He’s out there stomping g around the burnt ruins of the
tool shop.”
James looked out. “That’s very interesting
if I do say so myself.”
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