Wednesday, February 17, 2010

No Ansrz, Lotsa Qwestshunz




Musashi Sez:

By the tim I gots bak to the hotel, Alek an Pero wer behayvin themselves again, which wuz a big releef. But mai feets wer soggy an mai fur was mattid down somthin feers from all that mistee stuff, an I wuz in a mood lik wen yer mom cuts yer naylz wethr or not they needz it.

Bein mor than uzual intellijint fer a chanj, Alek hads one of them cushee hotel towlz reddee fer me wen I got bak, so I wuz qwiklee drier an not so mutch unhappee. Pero tried to halp by lickin mai hed, but ther ar a line, so I sed, “Do NOT want!” an he bakked off. But he calld room servis an akskd fer hot koko fer me, so I fergivd him.

Alek sed, “So, Eight, how did the meeting go?”

“It wuz OK. H wuz on tim an respekful (hrmph) an he givd me the thum dryv. He puttid it on mai collr.”

Alek unhookd the thingee an plugged it into his laptop (altho he almost nevr puts it on his akshul lap…stranj…). We watchd as theez cool bloo diagramz zippd past on his screen. Alek mayd funnee purrin sounz—wull, funnee fer a hoomin peeple, aneewae.

Pero whined cuz he wuzn’t in on the technolojee. “Que? Whut that?”

Alek saved the stuff. “That, mi amigo, is the setup of our friend Felicity Fourpaws’ company headquarters. With a bit of luck, we should be able to find out if her illegal activities--”

“Huh! Which ar still jus onlee allejd fer now…”

“Quite. We’ll find out if her alleged activities are taking place in the company itself—is the company simply a cover for them?—or if they are a sideline she does on her own.” He startid to pet me, but I wakkd his hand. “Or—” he continued hurriedly, “if they are even happening at all.”

Pero scratchd his eer wift his bak foot. “But I thogt yu sed that Myseez wuz certayn that ther wer problemz weeth her beeznis?”

“Er…Yes. Absolutely. But the problem could simply be tax evasion, which in most countries is a national sport. It might not be, er, the sort of illegal activity that, eh, actually harms people…”

I cud tell rigt then it wuz goin to be one of them nigts…

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