A Cat in the Attic Mystery: The Secret of Logan Pond by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2020-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Cass picked me up just over an hour after I’d spoken to him. He’d already gone home and changed, so Milo wasn’t with him. He suggested a nearby steakhouse, which was fine with me. Although the restaurant served food that was good enough to be considered fine dining, it was really more of a casual, if somewhat expensive, option.

“So let’s start off by you filling me in on your conversation with Larry,” Cass jumped in after we’d ordered scampi with rice and vegetables.

“You mean my conversation with my anonymous informant,” I reminded him.

“Yeah, okay, if that’s how we need to play it. What exactly did this informant tell you about the night Austin disappeared?”

I filled him in on the details of the conversation Dex and I’d had with Larry, including the fact that Colin had slipped Austin a drug which had caused him to see things and that Colin had also threatened the other boys to keep their mouths shut about what went on or else.

“Seems like a big lie to keep given the situation,” Cass said.

“I agree. My informant agreed. He told Dex and me that in the beginning, he was certain that the police would find Austin, and everything would be okay, so he wasn’t overly worried about the lie. By the time he realized Austin would not be found, he felt it was too late to contradict the story he and the others had been telling everyone for days.”

“I guess you know that I spoke to Colin today,” Cass said. “He told me a much different story than the one Larry told you.”

“Oh. What did Colin have to say?”

“His story about what happened on the first day of the campout was very similar to the story Toby and Larry told. The one big difference is that while Larry said Colin slipped a hallucinogen into Austin’s drink, which caused him to run away from the campsite in terror, Colin said that he, Josh, and Austin were the last three up after everyone else had gone to bed. He said they were discussing the plan for the following day, and he and Austin had different ideas about how things should go. According to Colin, Josh sided with him, and Austin got mad and stormed off. He then said he and Josh went to bed at that point. He and Josh were sure that Austin would cool down and slip into his own tent once he did. Colin said he was as surprised as anyone was when they woke up, and Austin was gone. He shared that even then, he figured the guy was around somewhere, and they’d eventually find him, but they never did.”

“And you never picked up an odd vibe from Colin that he was lying at any point?” I asked.

Cass shrugged. “I won’t go that far. He was definitely lying about something. The question in my mind is which part of the story he was lying about.”

“What do you mean, which part?” I asked.

“It seems that everyone failed to mention the part about the older boys drinking and smoking weed.

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