CHAPTER 10
Friday morning Matt met with Terrence Whitaker and showed him the surveillance videos. "I really thought it was Margie. He sure did have me fooled – but not anymore."
Matt had shown him how Roger Bertram had moved several cases of beer out the door for free and how he had skimmed the cash drawer. He pulled out the flash drive and handed it to the manager. "There ya go. Take that to the police and file your charges. And here's a suggestion: give Margie a raise. The customers really like her." He grinned at Terrence.
"You know, I believe I will. Mr. Houston, I appreciate everything you've done. And it sounds like that fella that took my money will be having a while behind bars to think about what he did."
"Well, between breaking and entering and scamming you, I don't think he'll be getting any more jobs where he can scam folks so easily again." He clapped Whitaker on the back and they headed toward the elevator. "I'll stop by later on and pick up the cameras." The two men shook hands and Whittaker left.
Friday afternoon Roy, Vince, and Will came walking into the office about 3:00. "Did y'all get done early?" Matt was a little surprised to see them there so soon.
"Yep. We make a good team." Roy smiled over at the two men. "And we even managed to have a good time while we were working."
"Well hell, maybe I should go along on this trip." Matt looked at the trio.
"Nope, you can't do that." Will spoke up for the group.
"Why not? I'm the boss." Matt looked at his cousin.
"Because you would miss CJ and Catey too bad and would probably drive the rest of us crazy." Vince and Roy both cracked up as Matt grinned.
"Yeah, you're probably right, Cuz. I've kind of gotten used to having my ladies around. Besides, they smell a lot better than y'all do." He put his arm around CJ who was holding Catey Rose. "So y'all will be starting down in San Diego on Monday, is that right?"
"We sure will. And if we keep going at the same rate that this job went we should be done about two weeks sooner than we had planned – assuming that we don't run into any problems along the way." Roy was pretty pleased with the way things were going so far. He had worked hard to get the deal together and was glad that all of his hard work was paying off – not just for Houston Investigations, but for Will and Vince as well. They were going to make a large chunk of money off of the deal.
"So what do you boys say we celebrate – huh? I believe there are some catfish fillets at the house that need to be fried up. Whatcha say?"