Most Likely to Die by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Chapter

Nine

WAS JUDD THE culprit after all? Nancy assumed she had solved the case already and wondered why she felt totally unsatisfied.

It’s just that it’s so hard to believe! she told herself. True, everything pointed to Judd now. He’d made it clear to Nancy that he had a grudge against Wendy. He’d been the person Celia had first suspected. And now to find all those newspapers with the words cut out.

It had to be Judd, Nancy thought, trying to convince herself. That meant that every impression he had just given Nancy had been wrong.

Slowly Nancy reached into the wastebasket to pick up the cut-up newspapers. At that exact moment Judd walked back in.

“Come into the office and have a seat, sir. I’ll just get those forms for you to sign,” he was saying politely to someone behind him. Then he caught sight of Nancy. “Oh, excuse me a minute,” he said to his customer. “I’ll be right with you.”

He stepped toward Nancy so menacingly that she dropped the papers and backed away. When he spoke, his voice was cool—too cool.

“I thought I’d asked you to do something pretty simple, Nancy,” he said. “Why are you still here?”

Nancy’s heart was pounding. She knew she had nothing to be afraid of, but Judd looked so blazingly angry that she felt frightened—and as guilty as if she’d been the one caught stealing. “I—I forgot something,” she stammered.

“Have you remembered it now?”

Nancy nodded.

“Okay. Then get out.”

Nancy grabbed her shoulder bag and left. It wasn’t until she was safely back in her car across the street that she realized she hadn’t brought any of the newspapers with her. And they were her only evidence!

Nancy leaned back in her seat and let out a long, frustrated sigh. “Boy, Drew,” she muttered aloud. “You really blew it.”

Should she go back and get the papers? Nancy almost laughed at the idea. She could just imagine walking back into Judd’s office—in front of his customer—and trying to take the papers out of his wastebasket.

No, the papers would just have to stay there—if they were still there at all. Nancy was sure Judd had noticed what she was doing. He’d probably already gotten rid of them.

Sighing again, Nancy put the key into the ignition. As she did so she glanced over at the garage one last time. She couldn’t see into Judd’s office; all she could see was Patrick’s gleaming black Corvette up on the lift.

Patrick’s Corvette . . . Suddenly Nancy’s thoughts took a new direction. If Judd was guilty of all these other attacks, wasn’t it possible Patrick was in danger, too? All the kids who had been attacked had been successful in some way. If Judd resented people who were more successful than he was, who better to resent than Patrick?

And if Patrick was next on Judd’s hit list, wouldn’t sabotaging Patrick’s car be a great way to get him?

Nancy decided she had to follow up on her hunch. She drove to a pay phone around the corner and called Patrick at home.

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