The Case of the Jewel Covered Cat Statues by Cindy Vincent

Author:Cindy Vincent [Vincent, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781932169713
Publisher: Whodunit Press
Published: 2014-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

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Holy Catnip! For a moment or two, I could hardly breathe. I just sat there and sort of gulped in air. My eyes were glued to Delilah as Bogey and I watched her slowly walk away. She swung her hips from side to side, and it seemed like an hour passed before she was out of sight.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop shaking. “Bogey, weren’t you scared? That lady was going to . . .”

But I couldn’t even finish my sentence.

Bogey shook his head slowly. “I know it, kid. But I still had plenty of time to jump. Plus, I knew our Mom was on her way back.”

He paused and took a deep breath. “But any way you look at it, kid, that dame is bad news.”

I glanced back outside. “I’m sure glad our Mom kicked her out of the store.”

Now Bogey grinned. “I knew she would, kid. Plus I noticed you jumped in to save me, too.”

I tilted my head. Up until that moment, I guess I hadn’t even realized it. But Bogey was right. I did jump in to save my brother. Without even thinking about it. And I would have saved him if our Mom hadn’t shown up on time. Funny, but no matter how scared I was, I wasn’t going to let someone hurt Bogey. I guess it was just one of those natural instinct kinds of things.

Bogey put his paw on my shoulder. “Only a good cat detective would jump in like that, kid.”

That made me smile. Because Bogey was right. It was exactly the kind of thing he would have done. And exactly the kind of thing Lil would have done, too.

Suddenly, I felt just a little bit taller than I had before.

I grinned at my brother. “Thanks for saying that.”

He pulled a bag of cat treats from a glass vase on the buffet. “Nothing you didn’t earn, kid.”

He passed me a treat and then took one for himself. For a second, I just sat there chewing on my treat. But then I remembered the paper that Bogey had stuffed between the cushions of the couch.

I turned to my brother, all ready to say something.

But he beat me to it. “I’ll bet you’re wondering about the paper, kid. I grabbed it from Delilah’s purse. I only got a quick glance at it. Near as I can tell, it looked like some kind of airline schedule.”

“An airline schedule?” I asked. “Does that mean she was on a plane?”

Bogey passed me another treat. “That would be my guess, kid. But we’ll know more after we check it out.”

I took the treat in my paw. “I didn’t believe the story about her sister. Did you?”

Bogey grabbed another treat for himself. “Not one bit, kid. She was here to find that package. Pure and simple.”

I munched my treat and stared outside at the sidewalk. “Wow, we had two people here in one day, both looking for that package. Who do you think that package belongs to?”

Bogey grabbed a couple more treats for us before he hid the bag back in the vase.

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