Wendy
Copyright© 2018 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 6
David said, “Wow. An admission of guilt. Did it have anything to do with the yellow door in an Avocado garage ... the door in the wall with the thirty caliber machine-gun holes?”
Wendy blushed deeper.
“It did, it did. I did taw a puddy tat!”
“You goof! No. I mean I know ... but I didn’t have anything to do with it. It was Karen.”
“She told you?”
“Yes,” Wendy said.
“I’m hurt ... she didn’t tell me,” David said. “Why would she tell you?”
“I’m an attorney ... and she didn’t tell me ... exactly ... she said it was a hypothetical situation. She mentioned slaves, drugs and the possibility of two witnesses. After she finished, I told her to keep her hypothetical mouth shut and hope the hypothetical witnesses kept theirs shut too.”
“I see,” David said. “A new complexion on a complex situation.”’
“You keep your mouth shut too,” Wendy said. “The law looks unkindly on innocent civilians who don’t give criminals a chance at their day in court.”
“Seems like a shitty way to run a country,” David said.
“That’s why my dad and I are defense attorneys. I understand why the civil attorneys didn’t want you down here.”
“Why was I here?”
“To testify to the facts.”
“What facts?”
“That I was actually in the car.”
“But, that was stupid,” David said, “Everybody knew you were in the car.”
“Everybody wasn’t on the witness stand. The law doesn’t work like that.” She explained, “Any shadow of doubt.”
“Those were high priced lawyers.”
“They’ve gotten him off three previous driving under the influence accidents. There’s a lot of profit in beer.”
“What do you suppose will happen?”
“We;re going to win and the price of beer will go up twenty five cents a can.” Wendy said. “The business will keep making beer ... the customers will get used to paying the quarter ... Daddy and I will get our millions and it’ll take a couple of weeks extra profit to pay us off. The family won’t lose a dime.” She looked disgusted, “If anything their wealth will increase.”
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