Knight's Scheme by Phil Lollar

Author:Phil Lollar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Chapter Books, JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Christian / Action & Adventure
Publisher: Focus on the Family
Published: 2020-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Don’t just sit there; say something!”

Kelly’s left leg bobbed up and down so fast, the folding chair he sat in started scooting backward across the linoleum office floor. He clamped his sweaty, shaking hand on his knee to stop the bouncing and the scooting and glared across a metal desk at his interrogator. After a moment, a cat meowed.

Dr. Blackgaard massaged the head of the large, fluffy gray Persian feline purring in his lap. “Cats are amazing creatures, aren’t they, Gregory? So sleek and gentle, and yet when they’re angry . . .” He suddenly and sharply yanked one of the cat’s ears, and she hissed and spat. “Aw, I’m so sorry, Sasha!” he said soothingly. He immediately began stroking and petting her again, and she lapsed back into gentle purring.

Kelly swallowed hard and wiped a trickle of sweat from his forehead. “L-look, you know me. I’m no spy. The car had a nice-looking radio. That’s what you pay me to do, right? Snatch radios and junk? Well, the other thing also looked good, so I grabbed it, too. I didn’t know it was some kinda top-secret military gizmo until I turned it on.”

“It’s a laptop computer, Gregory, not a gizmo. Why didn’t you come to me right away?”

“It was a normal heist! I was gonna meet you tonight as usual.”

“You went to the airport.”

“I got scared! I didn’t know what to do!”

“You went to the airport, Gregory. You were going to leave, weren’t you?”

Now both of Kelly’s legs started bobbing, and he clasped his sides. “I-I . . . I was scared!”

Blackgaard set Sasha on the desk and leaned forward. “Of me? But why? I’ve always taken good care of you, haven’t I?”

Kelly started rocking back and forth. “Yeah, but . . . this was something different. I mean, it’s hot! I’ve got friends in Cincinnati. I thought I could lie low for a while.”

“And you weren’t trying to sneak out of town to sell the computer to someone else?”

Kelly stopped rocking and flung his hands on the desk. “No! No! I don’t know people like that! Man, right now, I wish I never touched the thing! The police are swarming all over the place!”

Blackgaard rose, strolled over to a water cooler, filled a paper cup, and took a drink. “Did anyone see you at the airport?”

“I never got out of the hotel van.”

“Which hotel?”

“I dunno . . . Excalibur or Excelsior—one of those ‘ex’s’.”

Another sip of water. “So, the driver saw you.”

“Yeah, I guess. Him and two other people—an old man and a girl. But I got out before the van got to the hotel, and I came straight here.” Kelly clasped his sides and started rocking again. “I’m tellin’ you, man, I’m scared!”

Blackgaard gulped down the last of his water, refilled the cup, and set it before Sasha on the desk. She lapped at it daintily. “No need to be, Gregory. I’ll take care of you. Just like always. Your little ‘find’ could serve me very, very well.

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