Chapter
15
James’s jaw hung to the floor as he stared wide eyed at the officer. “There’s a body?”
The police officer slowly nodded. “Well, we haven’t uncovered the body yet but the dogs are never wrong when they find someone.”
“I wonder who it is, the guy who owned the tool shop maybe?”
The police officer shrugged. “We don’t know yet but we should know soon. I better get back to work. Better to keep your kitties in.”
James nodded. “Yes, we will keep them in for sure. Thanks for very much.”
The officer turned and suddenly one of the dogs howled sending the officer flying off the step to go to the site. James watched for a minute but more police cars came and blocked the view. James quickly shut the door and locked it.
He rushed into the kitchen where Sophie was busy decorating a cake. “You won’t believe what just happened. This officer came to the door. They think they now have a murder.”
Sophie froze on the spot holding her icing bag. A drop of icing went plop on the counter. Her eyes went as wide as saucers. “That’s awful.”
“One of the dogs howled sending everybody scrambling. I think they may have found the body.”
Sophie wiped her hands. Let’s got see out the window.”
James followed her but they couldn’t see anything. “Let’s go upstairs, we will see up there.”
James was right at Sophie’s heels. They both made it to the window together. As they looked down men were scrambling around the site. Some were digging and others were keeping the dogs back. They were all excited. Sophie stretched out her neck to get a better look. She gasped. “I think they are uncovering the body now.” She clutched her chest waiting.
James squeezed her shoulders. “It will be okay. We are all safe here.”
Sophie sighed. “Thank you.”
There was quite a bit of commotion but finally they came around and they had a body bog and Sophie and James knew that they had someone in it. She looked up at James. “They did find someone.”
James looked like he was holding his breath but let out a breath when they loaded the body. “I guess we will find out who soon enough.”
Sophie shook her head. “Yes, unfortunately yes.”
Both Gingersnap and Molly came into the room. Sophie turned. “It’s a good thing you two are safe. I will have to tell Marley that Molly is here and safe. She went to her cell phone and texted her. It pinged right back. Sophie nodded as she read it. “She is coming to get you Molly.” Both cats sat on the bed looking at them.
James grinned. “You two probably could use a snack after all that excitement. It was like Gingersnap understood him. He let out a quick meow.
“Alright then, let’s go.”
They both hopped down and followed James down the steps. Sophie stayed up for a bit and looked out the window to see if she could see anything more. There was a lot of people around and now they were putting up yellow tape around the scene. She couldn’t believe that this happened in the little town of Pepperlane. She wondered how Susan was taking all this. She would not be putting up her dress shop anytime soon. At the same time, she thought the whole situation was a bit off. What kind of deal did she make with Mr. Fifer? She hadn’t seen her in a while or that Mr. Grant either. Didn’t really want to see him for that matter she thought but still…Something in her mind was playing out some devious plan that had been made by someone. It was just who they found and who has done this.
Sophie sighed and went back down stairs. There was nothing she could do anyway. Sophie heard voices when she got down back to the kitchen. Marley was over and was very happy to see Molly was okay. She looked at Sophie. “So, did you see all that?”
“They found someone. We saw the body bag. We wonder who it is.”
Marley shrugged. “Well, it’s either Mr. Fifer or Mr. Grant. Those two hated each other.”
Sophie nodded. “It could be, but we will see.” Some how she knew there were more players in this scandal than she cared to admit.
Molly went home with Marley and Gingersnap went back up stairs after having a snack and water. Too much excitement for one day. Just as he hopped up on the bed, he heard the sound of a motorcycle come roaring up. He hopped up on the dresser and onto the nightstand and then on the ledge. He looked down and there was that same motorcycle with that mean looking cat. They got off their bike and the cat followed. There were still police cars there and those dogs were there as well but didn’t appear to bother either one of them. Gingersnap watched closely as they marched up to the site but did get stopped by a police officer who looked down at the cat and then back up at them.
They didn’t get any father and were escorted back to the bike. The mean cat hopped up on the basket. He looked right up at Gingersnap who cowered behind the curtain. The person got on their bike and they both went off. Gingersnap came out then and watched as the police officer went back.
Gingersnap hopped on the bed and it didn’t take long when he fell asleep. It was some time later when the sound of the motorcycle woke him up. He hopped over to the ledge again. There were no cars around but lots of tape. That didn’t stop the black hooded driver and their cat from going over there. Gingersnap could see them looking things over. They didn’t take anything but one thing Gingersnap noticed was that the driver of the motorcycle looked like a girl Gingersnap thought. Who could that be?
The mean cat hopped up on his basket and the driver got on the bike. The started it up and slowly drove to the other side of the property where there was no tape. They disappeared on the other side. Gingersnap looked to see where they went but then he heard the sound of the bike near where they dug. They dug around for a bit Gingersnap could see and then he saw them take a box out of the ground. They took it back to the bike and slowly drove back around to the back lane and then took off.
They came and got what they wanted Gingersnap knew but what and who was that?”
Gingersnap heard James downstairs, so he went down to see what was going on. He heard him talking to Sophie. “The police officer just confirmed to me that they know who it is and that we are not to go anywhere soon. We have to give information on this situation since we knew the person.”
“I see,” said Sophie. “Who did they find?”
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