Silver Threads by Bette Lee Crosby

Author:Bette Lee Crosby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bent Pine Publishing
Published: 2016-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

After he’d crossed over into Jones County, Eddie began driving through the small towns and keeping his eye peeled for a Home Depot. He found it in Marston. Acting as if he were any ordinary homeowner shopping for fix-up supplies, he grabbed a cart and started through the aisles.

In the paint aisle he tossed a package of plastic gloves into the basket then moved on to the next row and added a roll of duct tape. Finding the right ladder was a bit trickier. Most of the ladders long enough to reach the second-floor window were too long to fit into the car. He finally found one he could get into the trunk; it had three sections that slid one on top of the other. The Werner Compact ladder was $149, more than he’d planned to spend, but what the hell. By tomorrow afternoon he’d be looking at that amount of money as small change.

His last stop was the aisle where Home Depot had camping supplies. He added a good sized folding knife to the basket then headed for the checkout register. The woman at the register slid the items across the scanner one by one and never even glanced at Eddie. So far everything was going along exactly as planned.

Eddie wheeled the basket out to the parking lot, and that was when a sudden storm came up. In seconds the gray cloud that had been hovering overhead turned black, and thunder boomed. The car was parked at the far edge of the lot, so Eddie began to hurry. With the ladder bouncing up and down in the basket he could only go so fast, and before he made it to the car the sky burst open. In the few minutes it took to load the trunk, his shirt and hat were soaked through.

He pulled the wet baseball cap off and laid it on the seat beside him then used his handkerchief to sop up some of the water from his arms and tee shirt.

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Shortly after noon, he arrived back in Clarksburg. Figuring there was no such thing as being too careful, he headed for Greenhaven Drive. While he had daylight and could see, he needed to check that there were no bushes to block placement of the ladder and make sure there were no neighboring windows from which he could be seen. He also had to know if he was dealing with a storm window or screen. Once he started the job, it had to be quick. In and out in less than three minutes. Any unforeseen challenges could slow him and lead to way more trouble than he could handle.

He turned onto Greenhaven and drove past the house, but the way it sat angled to the street he couldn’t get a clear picture. Three times he circled the block then finally came to a stop and parked the car across from Marta’s house.

The kid was at the far end of the street, still tugging on the leash while the dog scrambled from one spot of grass to the next.

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