Chris Rogers, Author

Making Waves by Roger Paulding

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Determined to make sure his bean counter handled the purchase of his salvaged yacht appropriately, Fred X. headed for the auction, arriving barely in time to hear the final going, going, gone!

Dooley stepped forward to write a check for the auctioneer. He looked mighty happy, Fred thought. He'd never seen old Dooley look so thrilled.

Fred grabbed him by the arm. "What are you so bananas about?"

"My yacht," Dooley crowed. "I never guessed I could get a yacht so cheap."

" It's not your yacht, fool. I sent you out to here to buy it for me. It's mine."

Dooley licked his smiling lips. "Not any more. I bid on it, and I'm paying for it." And then Dooley mumbled something under his breath that sounded like, "Where you're going, you won't have any use for it."

" Dooley, you're fired unless you turn that yacht over to me," Fred shouted, just before noticing he was surrounded by uniformed policemen.

One officer stepped forward. "Fred Xavier Keefer?"

" Yeah?"

The officer grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back. "You're under arrest for attempted murder."

A familiar voice chimed in. "You were just too clever for your own good, Freddie-boy!"

He wheeled around to face Mildred.

" You can blame it on Berry," Mildred said. "When the police chief's wife got a postcard signed, Love, Berry, with the Berry scratched through and Milly written over it, we knew we had you."

Fred blanched. "You're supposed to be dead!"

Mildred popped a piece of gum into her mouth. "How stupid do you think I am? You faker, I saw right through your sudden change of heart."

"But the drink I gave you?"

" Dumped your doped-up drink in the bathroom sink and pretended to pass out while you hid me in the closet."

The officer fastened the handcuffs around Fred’s wrists. "Interpol arrested your girl friend in Paris yesterday. She confessed to the entire scheme."

Fred turned to Mildred. "How did you get to shore?"

"Swam, just as you did.” She patted his biceps. “I want to thank you for egging me on with those boring laps in the pool every morning."

THE END

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