Abby, Two
Copyright© 2019 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 26
We didn’t get to go for two weeks. Duty at the mine ... discussions with Pater about the Uhaul, repairs to the Uhaul, a run out to Napoleon Reef to the widow at the place where we got the trailer and another of ‘those’ Dreams.
You know... dreams featuring the Cowfaces and Jim ... from next door. The dreams responsible for the magma tunnel mine and the 17 million dollar Ophir trust fund find. This time we were instructed to take Janna and Alice Li when we went.
David
Napoleon Reef has been mined, mined and mined again. I knew before we drove away there couldn’t be anything left ... but Abby. Yes ... Abby. Just like Ophir, Abby said ‘they missed a spot’ and we found that, indeed, they had. The dream directed us to the only place on the whle damn road with picnic facilities ... if a single table and grill welded to a post are facilities. The ‘facilities’ were surrounded by holes dug by other picnickers. This was the spot the dreams designated. I gave Alice a trowel.
“Have at it,” I said.
Alice laughed, but took the trowel.
“Where?” she asked.
“You choose.”
She tossed the trowel up in the air ... everybody ducked. I could have sworn the trowel took a right turn when it reached the peak of the toss.
CHINK
It bounced.
If it had been gravel the trowel would have stuck. The sound would have been more of a ‘snick.’
But No ... it bounced.
At the moment of “Chink” I could have been convinced to buy a bridge, any bridge. At the first chance I did buy a Monster Millions Lottery ticket.
I recalled a Far Side cartoon. The apprentice undergrad has uncovered a bone in the side of the trench and mentioned it to the departing Professor.
“Very interesting, Carstairs. We’re leaving.”
The complete skeleton of an as yet undiscovered and un-named dinosaur is buried in the sand just behind the uncovered bone. In SAND!
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