Prince Ali by Victoria Hardesty & Nancy Perez

Author:Victoria Hardesty & Nancy Perez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Publication Consultants

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Calvin crawled out of bed Sunday morning at seven. He fiddled around in the kitchen brewing up a pot of coffee. When the coffee was done, he poured himself a cup and walked out on the porch. He liked having his first cup of coffee outside.

He leaned on the porch rail for a while looking out over the hills that surrounded the cabin. The morning light was soft on the green of the grasses and the bright colors of the wildflowers in bloom. It was quiet. He could hear the birds as they started their day. A slight breeze stirred the leaves in the trees around the cabin. After a while he backed up and sat down in his chair.

As he sat down, he felt the pouch he’d stuffed into his jeans pocket the day before. Almost forgot about that. He pulled it out. The leather pouch made a small lump in his hand, but was surprisingly heavy for its size. He wondered what the value of the gold flakes inside really was.

He and Danny went through eighty dollars of the two hundred Nixon paid them for the horse so they didn’t have much left for anything. After all the hard work and the risk, he was depressed. He’d seen sketches of them on TV. He was anxious. He knew the police were looking for them. He’d have to figure this out.

Danny joined him with his own coffee a few minutes later. “What’re we goin’ to do now?” he asked.

“I thought I’d take the gold to that coin shop in Escondido in the morning,” Calvin answered. “I know they buy gold. Maybe they can tell us what this stuff is worth.”

“Well we can’t eat it like it is.”

Bill’s Coin Shop opened Monday morning precisely at nine a.m. Through the windshield of their truck, Calvin and Danny saw a hand turning the sign from “Closed” to “Open”. They’d been waiting nearly an hour. They sipped convenience store coffee with stale donuts to kill the time.

They climbed out of the truck and walked into the shop, looking at the displays of coins in the show cases.

“May I help you?” asked the young lady behind the counter.

“Yeah, we got some gold we’d like to sell.” Calvin answered, pulling the leather pouch out of the pocket of his jeans and placing it on the counter.

“Let’s see what you have,” she said as she reached for the pouch. She untied the leather thong, opened the pouch and poured a small amount of the contents into a small round tray she’d brought to the counter. The small flakes shined golden in the light.

“I’d better go get Bill. He’s the expert on this stuff,” she said after examining the contents of the tray. She turned and walked through a doorway into the back of the shop while Calvin and Danny waited anxiously.

A few minutes later, the young lady returned followed by a spectacled older gentleman with thinning white hair.

“Fellas, what can I do for you?” he asked pleasantly when he reached the counter.

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