Purrfect Spy (The Mysteries of Max Book 88) by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Saint, Nic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Puss in Books
Published: 2024-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

It wasn’t the first time that we found ourselves in a position of captivity, but I still didn’t much enjoy it. Especially since I had left the house with a certain reluctance, and only because Harriet had insisted I join them for cat choir. So now there was no cat choir, no nap time in my immediate future—only being locked up in some dank old farmhouse!

Johnny and Jerry had put us in some old barn that must have been where they kept the horses at one time, or the cows, for it was very smelly in there, and not very clean. At least they had put some food out for us in the form of a few pieces of sausage—or a lot of sausage. And even though sausage isn’t exactly my favorite food, I still ate it with a certain relish. When you’re hungry you can eat almost anything, as long as it’s edible.

“I don’t like it here, Max,” said Dooley as he huddled close to me. We had found a spot on an old wooden crate that was more or less comfortable, and so we had settled in for the night.

“No, I don’t like it very much either,” I confessed.

Harriet and Brutus had decided that settling down was not in the cards for them, and had gone looking for an avenue of escape. But after they had done the rounds of the old barn, they had to admit defeat.

“I don’t know,” said Harriet after they joined us again, “but there doesn’t seem to be a chance of escape here, you guys. Everything is locked up tight, and I don’t see a way out.”

“Not even a small hole?” I asked hopefully. “Or a crack in the roof?”

“Nothing,” said Harriet. “We’ll have to wait until we’re saved by our humans—or until Johnny and Jerry grow a conscience and decide to let us out again.”

“Fat chance,” I said. “Those two are career crooks. They won’t have a change of heart—ever.”

“No, I guess not,” said Brutus. “Otherwise they would have left this life of crime behind a long time ago.”

Once upon a time, the two men had decided to walk the straight and narrow, but that hadn’t lasted long. And now they seemed to have embraced their criminal true selves more wholeheartedly than ever.

“They must be paid a great deal of money for this,” Brutus ventured. “Otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it.”

“I guess contract killers are highly sought after,” I agreed. “Hence the high pay package.”

I decided to close my eyes for a moment, eager to get some of that much-vaunted nap time I had been seeking for a while now. And as my friends did the same, I suddenly thought I heard voices. They seemed to be coming from behind us. And when I opened my eyes and glanced up, I saw that there was an opening in the wall behind us. It was a grille that covered some kind of ventilation shaft. “Look, you guys,” I said. “I think that leads to the main farmhouse.

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