Chapter
14
Gingersnap watched the officer hold up the scarf in front of everyone. The dog’s underneath were sniffing it. Gingersnap hid behind the curtain watching never taking his eyes off of the dogs. The piece was placed in a special bag. The two officers were talking to each other in low voices.
They all left back to the site and Gingersnap came out behind the curtain. They all stayed for a while until they got into the police cars and left. Gingersnap then went out his cat door to go exploring. When he got out on the back porch he sent over to where the dogs were digging. He could still smell them.
Something from under the porch came out and there was Molly. She came bounding over to where he was. They both looked at the hole that was left behind. Molly let out a weak mew. Gingersnap got a little closer to the hole and started to pull away the soil to see what more there was. He was getting the feeling that the dogs didn’t find everything that was buried here. Molly was right there. Then she started to dig to and then something shiny came into view. Molly hissed. Gingersnap clawed some more dirt back to real a knife. Very carefully he sniffed it. They both backed up from the hole. Gingersnap could see something red on the knife. They both looked at each other.
Suddenly more police cars came and this time a van with them. Molly and Gingersnap hid underneath the porch while more dogs came out of this van. They had special vests wrapped around their bellies. One had a large red scarf and appeared to be the leader. Two officers and two of the dogs went around the burn sight sniffing. The rest of the dog unit were allowed to roam and sniff about.
Suddenly one of the dogs caught a scent and were looking over in their direction. The hair went up on the back of Gingersnaps neck. He was wondering he smelled them but then the dog came scampering over to the hole that they had been digging in. Gingersnap knew that he could smell their tracks. Molly froze and so did Gingersnap. They both jumped when the dog barked to let them know what he found. Another dog came to investigate and instantly barked as well. That sent two officers to investigate.
Gingersnap was wishing he was still inside and he knew Molly wished the same thing. Maybe they could escape but then more dogs came over. They were trapped. The two police officers shouted out to the others who came rushing over. They were now all standing around looking in the hole. One of them took out what looked like tongs out of his bag and picked up the knife and held it up in front of them all.
They all shared a look. Then one of them gave orders to the others and off they went with the dogs to hunt for more. Another officer came over with a shovel that he had taken out of the van and started to dig some more. Gingersnap wanted a way so he nudged Molly to the back where there was a small opening at the end of the porch where they could sneak up and get through the pet door. Quietly they made it to the back until Molly got up on the porch and mewed at Gingersnap.
The officer heard her and came up the stairs. Molly crouched down to make herself even smaller. “Hey kitty, is this where you live?”
Gingersnap squeezed himself through the opening up onto the porch and made his way over to Molly. The police officer smiled. “There is two of you. Let me get you back inside then. We have a lot of dogs here.”
He knocked on the door. Gingersnap looked at Molly. Her didn’t know if he should push her through the pet door or what but the door opened and there was James who was caught by surprise.
“Hello, just letting your cats inside. We have dogs all over the place now so thought these two would be safer inside.”
James nodded quickly. “Thank you very much. Come on in you two.”
Both of them scampered in past James’s feet and into the kitchen.
“So, did you guys find something to bring all these dogs in?”
“Yes, we have, we believe firmly now we have murder case.”
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