Today’s
excerpt is from Monster’s Palace, a stand alone book featuring new character
Clyde Feegle with Jim Scott and other old friends. The first part of Jo’s escape works just
fine. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
As soon as Tino and Basil realized Jo had left, they were
not too concerned. They planned to find
her car, using the GPS device. Their
plan would have worked except, as she drove away, Jo started wondering how they
had managed to find her so soon after her arrival at Clyde’s home. Jo was far from a modern device twit, so in
time figured out they must have some sort of device on her car.
She stopped, looked under her car, spotted the device,
pulled it free, and drove off. Reaching
her store, there was a newspaper delivery van parked nearby. The driver was placing the Sunday paper in a
vending machine. Jo took the device and
walked up to the van. She reached under
it and attached the GPS “gadget” (as she thought of it) under the van.
It took Tino and Basil two hours to track down the
often-turning delivery van. It had
stopped in front of them. Still not
knowing the van was the target, when they saw the blinking light on their
indicator stop, they pulled in behind it—thinking Jo must have pulled to a stop
in front of the van.
Tino had Basil get out of the passenger seat to go take a
look. He returned to their car. “I don’t see her car anywhere.”
Tino had a bewildered look as he pondered what he’d been
told. Just as he was about to open his
mouth to speak, the van pulled out. When
the indicator again showed movement, Basil asked, “Do you think…?”
“I think Miss Kelly is much smarter than we gave her credit
for.”
They followed the delivery van until it stopped again. Rather than worry about retrieving their
homing device, Tino drove off. As he
did, he glanced over at Basil. “I fear
we have an unfortunate phone call to make.”
“No, you have an
unfortunate phone call to make.”
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