The Missing Cash Mystery by Doris Hay

Author:Doris Hay [Hay, Doris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Will you kindly quit your moping, child?”

I’ve been reading the same sentence for the past fifteen minutes. What can I say to him? He doesn’t understand me.

Zorro does, but that’s almost worse. Butterball tells me to stop sulking, but Zorro encourages me to get back on the case.

I don’t want to get back on the case. There shouldn’t have been a case in the first place. Whatever happened next door is none of my business. If they can’t be bothered to call the police when their burglar alarm goes off, they’ve obviously got something to hide. Let them hide it in peace. Nothing to do with me.

Still, it’s pretty awful knowing my first case was a flop. Talk about feeling useless! I can’t solve a simple mystery, not even with Zorro’s help.

When Doris’s new cat gets here, she’ll probably dump me at the doorstep of some church or something. I saw that happen to an unwanted baby on one of the British mystery shows Butterball loves so much. But at the end of the episode, mother and baby were reunited. So maybe the same would happen to me? I don’t know exactly how these things work in real life.

Suddenly, Zorro slides down the stairs like they’re made of ice. “Ginger!” he cries. “Get up here! You gotta see this!”

His enthusiasm is contagious. Without thinking, I follow him upstairs, through the kitchen, and out the cat door. As he scurries around the side of the house and squeezes under the gate, I realize we’re leaving the backyard.

“Where are we going?” I ask.

“Shhh,” he says. “You’ll see.”

He stops short when we’ve reached the corner of Gemma and Ed’s front yard.

“What are we doing here?” I whisper.

“Quiet! Look!”

When he moves out of my way, I realize what’s going on: Tommy and Amber are just now arriving home from their Caribbean vacation. Tommy’s much darker than he was were before he left, but Amber was always darker than him. Her tight curls look lighter, though, like they’ve been bleached by the equatorial sun.

Both are wearing shorts, but Tommy’s come below his knees while Amber’s barely cover her thighs. Tommy has on a T-shirt. Amber’s wearing a faded tank top. They both look happy and peaceful, like they haven’t got a worry in the world.

I don’t see Gemma around, but there’s Ed helping the couple unpack the big vehicle. How long were they gone for? They’ve sure got a lot of suitcases!

“This is what I wanted you to see,” Zorro tells me.

I say, “Tommy and his girlfriend are home from vacation.”

I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean to me.

The front door opens and I expect Gemma to come out, but instead Oopsie comes racing across the lawn. He’s got his sights set on Amber. When she spots him, she drops to her knees and cries, “There’s my baby! Mama missed you, yes she did!”

Oopsie licks her face, licks her mouth. Zorro shudders at the sight, but Amber doesn’t seem to mind. The show of affection hurts my heart.

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