One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald

Author:John D. MacDonald [MacDonald, John D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-82669-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

Francisco Smith woke me up with his phone call at quarter past eight on Tuesday, that thirteenth day of December.

“Got something to write on?” he asked.

“Hold on,” I said, and got set and told him to go ahead.

“Okay, here’s the number of the annuity policy. GLC 085–14–0277. Four hundred thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents gets mailed out the first of every month. The guy at Great Lakes is named Rainey. T. T. Rainey. The September check came back, addressee moved, no forwarding address. They tried a trace. The Gorba family left last August 22nd. A Sunday. The couple and the five kids, in a big gray Cadillac sedan, towing a U-Haul. License 397 110. Dropped the apartment keys in the super’s box. Rent paid to the end of August and a month deposit in advance. Mrs. Gorba was paid by the week. She picked up her pay at the restaurant when she left work Friday evening. He was paid twice a month. His pay is still sitting there at the body shop. They left the apartment in good shape. They didn’t pick up the utilities deposits. They left clean. At least there’s no judgments filed against them.”

“Is Great Lakes still trying to find them?”

“No. They tried it on the cheap and gave up quick. They weren’t like somebody trying to collect. They sent out the check for a double payment October first and it came back too. So they put it and the November and December checks in an interest account. The January check will go in the same account, the one made out to her mother like the checks. But she turns eighteen in January, so if nobody shows up, they’ll start a new interest account in the name of Susan Kemmer.”

“Car payments?”

“No dice there. You see, it was a two-year-old Cad that the owner totaled, and the place Saul Gorba worked bid three-fifty for it. Then they found more wrong than the estimator thought there was. Gorba put down two hundred on it and agreed they could take another two-fifty out of his pay. That was back in April, I think. It was with the idea he could work on it in his spare time when he’d put in his regular hours, and buy the parts from them at cost or scrounge them from the yards, and they’d let him use shop tools. A lot of those guys work it that way for a personal car. They don’t like them trying to fix iron up for resale as it puts them in competition with the shops they’re working for. But Gorba didn’t have a car so it was okay with the boss. So for about nine hundred, plus all the hours he put into it, he came out of it with a pretty good automobile. I understand he’s handy with tools and catches on fast.”

“When did he finish it, Smith?”

“August sometime.”

“What would be the chance of tracing them in a hurry?”

After a short silence he said, “I wouldn’t say it was real great, not if Gorba doesn’t want to be traced.

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