Chapter 27

Agent Brown was just barely in bed when the phone rang. He got out of bed and walked to the study. He was dressed in Dr. Dentons with the flap part way open. His wife turned over and went back to sleep. He picked up the phone. "Brown here."

"Agent Chumpsy. We followed the four fruits to San Francisco. They were picked up at the airport by a Blue Izuzu. The plates had been changed on the vehicle so we don't know who the owner is. They followed MacAnish north to San Francisco and then cut off towards Pacifica. We followed MacAnish and a local black and white followed the Izuzu. The black and white lost all four tires on some tacks the fruits dropped on the road. They lost them." Chumpsy was sitting in the brown Chevy talking on a cellular phone. He was eating a cream filled sugar coated donut and drinking a cup of coffee.

"Tacks? They may be ding dongs, but they certainly are prepared. Is MacAnish OK?" Brown was scratching himself the way a big bear would.

"He's fine. His wife picked him up at the airport. I don't even think he knows we are following him. He just drove that attorney he testified with home and then went home himself. We are staking out his house in case the melon men return. The local office will send a car out to relieve us in a couple of minutes." He bit into the donut and red, almost phosphorescent, goop squirted out a small hole in the other end of the pastry and dropped to his leg.

"Good, get some sleep, but stick with that MacAnish guy. Something is going down." Brown was really getting into the scratching thing. He was rubbing his back up and down on a book case.

"Yeah." Chumpsy looked down at his pants as he felt the glop hit and wiped quickly at the mess, the white powdered sugar coated the pant leg and the mess grew. He leaned forward and his head hit a cup of steaming coffee balanced on the dash board. The coffee cup slide toward its date with destiny to join the mess already in his lap. He disconnected the phone call and shook his head. "Do you think that MacAnish guy could be contagious?"

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