Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Josh and Ruth Rose followed Dink through the living room to the porch. They sat on the front steps. "What's going on?" Josh asked. "I wasn't through with those cookies!"

"Remember the guy I told you about at the airport yesterday?" Dink asked. "Talking on the phone?" Ruth Rose grinned. "Yeah, the cook you thought was planning a robbery." Dink turned around and looked through the screen door. "I think it was Spike!" Josh and Ruth Rose just stared at Dink. Finally, Josh said, "What are you talking about, Dinkus?" "I recognized his voice!" Dink said. "The guy at the airport said the same thing, that some old cookies were loaded." Josh shook his head. "So?" "Don't you see?" Dink said. "Maybe he meant Gram Hathaway's friends are loaded—loaded with money!" Suddenly, the door opened, and Gram's friends began coming out. They all seemed excited about investing with Spike and Chip. Then Spike and Chip came out carrying the box of gold. Gram Hathaway followed them onto the porch. "Thanks for calling us a cab, Mrs. Hathaway" Spike said. "Do you really think your friends will

help us out?" Gram Hathaway smiled. "I wouldn't be a bit surprised. I'm going to talk to my banker on Monday morning!" A yellow cab pulled up, and Spike and Chip climbed in with the box. They waved out the window as the cab sped away. "Wasn't that fun!" Ruth Rose's grandmother said. She stepped back into the house. "There are plenty of goodies left if anyone is hungry!" she called through the screen door. "Thanks, Gram!" Ruth Rose said. "She's pretty excited," she added after her grandmother had gone inside. "I would be, too, if I was gonna get rich," Josh said. Dink stood up. "Well, I don't think she's gonna get rich," he said. "I think she's gonna get robbed!" "ROBBED!" Ruth Rose yelled. "Yeah," Dink said. "Spike and Chip could just take off with your grandmother's money." "But what about all that gold they just showed us?" Josh asked.

Dink shook his head. "I don't know about that, but I do know what I heard." "You know what you thought you heard," Josh said. "Besides, you don't know it was Spike. You never saw the guy on the phone." "But I did see his feet!" Dink said. He told Josh and Ruth Rose about the tattoo he'd seen on the man's ankle. "It's a good thing I'm such an observant young man," Josh said. "I know how we can settle this whole thing." "How?" Ruth Rose asked. "By finding out if it really was Spike that Dink heard on the phone." Dink looked at him. "And how do we do that, oh observant one?" Josh grinned. "Easy. We get Spike to show us his tattoo!"

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