Update On Crime by Carolyn Keene

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

Chapter

Nine

LOOK OUT, Bess!” Nancy cried, shoving her away from the wall of falling boxes.

Nancy barely managed to leap aside herself and fell hard on the concrete floor. A split second later one of the crates crashed onto the spot where she had just been standing. The heavy wooden crate splintered apart with a sickening crack.

“Nancy, are you all right?” Bess’s face was white with shock as she came over to help Nancy to her feet.

“I’m okay, but I can’t say the same for my panty hose,” she joked, brushing some dirt off her torn stockings.

The forklift driver, who was wearing a foreman’s hard hat, leapt off his vehicle. “What are you girls doing in this area!” he shouted.

“We took a wrong turn,” Nancy replied, half-truthfully.

“Accidents happen when you go snooping around where you don’t belong,” the foreman continued angrily. “I’ll bet that’s your Mustang I saw outside with the Channel Nine sticker on it! We don’t want any more reporters poking around here!”

He certainly wasn’t acting apologetic! Nancy thought. In fact, it was almost as if he had deliberately tried to run them down with the forklift.

“But of course it was an accident,” another voice smoothly interrupted the foreman’s tirade. “Right, Merrick?”

Nancy turned to see a well-dressed businessman who looked about twenty-five years old. He was standing in a doorway to the office building and was carrying a leather attaché case.

“Right, Mr. Milhaus. Of course I didn’t see them,” the foreman said, tugging at his hard hat.

“You can go tell the crew to clean up this mess,” Kurt Milhaus told Merrick, gesturing toward the heap of broken crates.

“Yes, sir,” the man replied. He glared over his shoulder at Nancy and Bess as he headed toward the back of the warehouse.

Milhaus turned to face the two girls. “I’m sorry about Merrick’s bad manners. He tends to be a hot-under-the-collar type, but he’s a good foreman. I hope neither of you was hurt.”

Bess, who still appeared to be in shock, said nothing. Nancy shook her head. “We’re all right, except for getting quite a scare.”

Milhaus motioned for them to follow as he opened the door to the main office building. “This area is off limits to visitors for safety reasons just like this,” he explained. “The receptionist told me you had gone to the ladies’ room. How did you wind up out here?”

“We must have taken a wrong turn,” Nancy said.

Milhaus nodded thoughtfully. “I guess that could happen to anybody,” he said slowly. “You said you had an appointment?”

“Well, we didn’t exactly have an appointment,” Bess said, springing back to life. She gave Kurt Milhaus her most appealing smile. “We were just hoping you might be able to make time to see us.”

Milhaus chuckled as he glanced from Bess to Nancy. “I have a meeting in a few minutes, but I guess I can squeeze in the time for two attractive young ladies.”

Good going, Bess, Nancy thought. She followed Kurt Milhaus down a second hallway and into his private office. She and Bess sat down in the office’s green leather chairs, while Mr.

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