Overthrown Book 14 Chapters 1&2

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Overthrown, The Death of America

Book Fourteen

Chapter One

“What do you mean I can’t go to the store?” Diana almost

hollered at Carl. “We need to get some groceries and I’m going to

go get them.”

“I didn’t say you can’t go, I said don’t go right now.” He

answered.

“Why not?” She demanded.

“Because of that.”

Carl pointed at the T.V. which was showing the breaking news at

the moment. It was showing with the collapse of the economy

happening, everything was beginning to grind to a halt. When the

value of the dollar fell through the floor, everything had doubledor tripled in price overnight. The cost of even the most basic food

items was now almost beyond the reach of the average citizen.

One of the major reasons for that was the cost of fuel for the

trucks that brought the food to the stores. Delivery costs had

more than doubled and the trucking companies had no choice but


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to raise the cost of their services. That raised the cost of food and

other necessary items.

Those who had any money at home had purchased everything

they could, leaving very little for those who didn’t have much to

spend in the first place. The people who counted on government

assistance were getting nothing at all. Store managers were

unwilling to accept welfare card’s in exchange for their goods.

Mainly because they believed they would never be honored. It

was cash and carry only. Because of that in most of the major

cities in the country, riots had started. People were dying over

food and gas.

“Do you see what is happening out there?” Carl asked his wife.

“How long is it going to be before that comes here?”

Diana just blew his protests off.

“That’s in New York and other big cities. This town doesn’t have

more than seventy thousand people. That isn’t going to happen

here.”

“Di, don’t be foolish. No town in this country has more than threedays of supplies. And that’s when times are normal. You’ve lived

here in Florida long enough to know that when a hurricane gets

too close the grocery stores get emptied overnight. This is a lot

worse than a hurricane. It isn’t just local either, this is


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nationwide. What is happening there will happen here almost

before you know it.”

“That’s all the more reason for me to go now.”

“I didn’t say don’t go. I said don’t go now. Give me a few minutes

and we will go together.”

“A few minutes for what?”

“For this.”

Carl had finished cleaning and loading his pistol while they had

been talking. He worked the action and put a round into the

chamber. Diana’s eyes widened and she told him,

“You’re not bringing that thing with me into the store. People will

think you are nuts.”

“You’re wrong on two counts. First, I am bringing this pistol with

me to protect us from that!” Again he pointed at the T.V. “Andnobody is going to think I’m nuts if I just keep it in my pocket.

They won’t even know I have it, unless you tell them because I

won’t.”


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“You are so paranoid! I can’t believe it.”

“I’m not paranoid, I’m careful. If that is happening in the big

cities, then it is only a matter of time before it happens here.

That’s just the way the world works. When people get hungry

they will do ANYTHING to fill their bellies. If that means stealing

or killing others, then they will do it. Ignoring that truth will not

change it. What is happening there will come here and we have

to be ready for it. Are you ready to go? I am.” Carl asked as he

stood up and tucked the pistol into his pocket.

“What would you know about being hungry? Haven’t I always fed

you well enough?” Diana demanded.

“I haven’t always been married to you. There have been times in

my past before you and I met when I WAS hungry. I know what

I’m talking about, I’ve been there.”

“And when did that happen?”

“It has happened more than once. But there was one time in the

service when my section got cut off from my company. We were

under radio silence so we couldn’t call for help. We had twovehicles and eight men. We also had two boxes of the old

fashioned C-Rations to feed us. One box is one meal for one man.

We had two boxes to last eight men for three days, before we

finally got linked up with another unit. When we did, I STOLE a


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case of C-Rations from them so that we could eat. That’s how I

know.”

Diana wasn’t satisfied.

“You ARE NOT coming into the store with me while you are

carrying that thing.”

“I wasn’t planning on it. I’m going to be guarding the car while

you get whatever you can.”

“Guarding it from whom?”

“From whoever might want to take what we have and they don’t.

I told you, I’ve been there and done that.”

“You are just so paranoid. That isn’t going to happen here.” Diana

said, ignoring the truths that Carl had told her.

“I hope you are right. But I’m not going to bet your life or mine

on what you hope will or won’t happen. Are you ready to go?”

“Not if you are carrying that thing.”


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“Okay, fine. I hope we have enough food to last us until this is

over.”

“You know we don’t. That’s why I have to go to the store.”

“Then let’s go.”

“Not with you carrying that thing.”

“Fine, have it your way.” Carl sat down.

“I thought you were going to help me with the groceries.”

“I am willing to help you, but not at the risk of our lives.” Heanswered from the chair.

“All right Mr. Paranoid. But you stay in the car and load the

groceries when I come out.”

Carl smiled. “Isn’t that what I said a minute ago?”

“Just get in the car.”


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The trip to the store was short and VERY quiet. Diana was

absolutely fuming over Carl’s insistence on bringing the pistol.

She just didn’t understand how this man whom she had married

had become so timid, so paranoid, in recent days. He actually

wanted to keep a loaded weapon in every room of the house. She

had challenged him on it. As usual, his answer was calm, polite

and one she couldn’t really argue with. He had told her;

“Honey I’ll tell you what. You tell me which room I’m going to be

in when the bad guys come breaking through the door and

THAT’S where I will keep my weapons.”

Of course she couldn’t answer the question, so she changed the

subject.

“That’s not going to happen.”

“I’m sure that is exactly what the Barkers thought. That’s why

they didn’t own a weapon of any kind. Are you ready to pay the

price they did for their mistake?”

That stopped Diana in her tracks. Mr. and Mrs. Barker, while not

close friends, had been friendly with Carl and Diana for a longtime. A short time ago they had suffered a home invasion. While

neither of them had died, Mr. Barker had been beaten very badly.

He had multiple broken bones and some internal injuries. Mrs.

Barker had been raped repeatedly throughout the night and was

in the same room with her husband in the hospital. Both were


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expected to survive, but neither would be leaving any time soon.

Diana agreed to compromise. There wasn’t a loaded gun in every

room. But Carl was never more than a short run away from one.

They pulled into the parking lot of the local grocery store. Carl

was happy to see that while the lot was over half full, there were

no lines leading to the door. He watched as Diana grabbed the

first available shopping cart and started towards the store.

“I’ll get what we need and be back in about half an hour.” She

told him over her shoulder.

Under his breath Carl said, “Sooner than that I think.” He then

called to his wife. “Here, take this.” He handed her $200 in cash.

“I don’t need that. I’ll just use my debit card.”

“Di, the banks are closed. Your card isn’t going to work. Take the

money and get what you can.”

“What are you talking about? The banks may be closed but all of

this is computerized. The computers still work. It’s just a matterof waiting for the banks to get the rest of it straightened out.”

“Diana, take the money. You may be in for a surprise.”


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“If the banks are closed, where did you get it?” she eyed him

suspiciously. “And how much did you get?”

“I got it before they closed. I could see the signs and thought it

best to be prepared. And I hope I got enough.”

She did take the cash, but with the idea that she would keep it

when she paid for the food with her card. It would be a good

lesson for Carl and his paranoia.

As Carl watched Diana wheel her way through the door he

noticed a short line at the ATM. The man at the machine kept

repeatedly trying to get it to give him money he knew was in his

account. But the machine refused to co-operate with him. He

couldn’t hear what was being said, but the man at the ATM was

clearly upset and the people standing in line behind him were

getting upset at the delay. Finally the first man in line removed

his card and waved the next person in line to the machine. As

with the first customer, the ATM refused to issue any money. Carl

couldn’t see what the screen said, but he could guess. He

imagined that the screen was telling everyone that due to

circumstances beyond its control it was temporarily out of service

and to please try again later. He watched as the patrons became

more and more upset and while most of them left, the first man

in line picked up a nearby garbage can and threw it at the

machine. He then stormed away to return home with nothing to

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“Bread, a large bag of rice, some dried beans and a few spices.

JUST THAT MUCH took most of the money you gave me.”

“I thought you were going to use your debit card.”

“They wouldn’t accept it.” Diana told him and stared out the

windshield hoping he wouldn’t say ‘I told you so’. Carl didn’t but

he did ask,

“How much do you have left?”

“About $75, why?”

“I’d like to get some gas before they raise the prices on that

again.”

“I thought you have money, Mr. Know-it-all. You said you went to

the bank.”

“That doesn’t mean I carry it around with me. Di, I need the cash

to get some gas.”

“How much of it?”


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“All of it.”

She was shocked.

“Why do you want all of it?”

“I told you. We need gas for the car. Gas prices are like the food

prices. They have gone through the roof. We need about sevengallons to top off the tank. Gas is about $10 a gallon. That means

I need all of the change.”

Carl knew that Diana had always been very fond of money. He

had had a good job and made a very good living for them and

their children, who had by this time all moved away. He didn’t

mind if she told him that she had spent $50 dollars on groceries

while the receipt in the bag said she had spent only $35. If she

wanted to put away a little ‘mad money’ that was fine by him. He

was disturbed that she had a separate bank account which she

never spoke of and he had no idea of how much was in it. When

he noticed statements coming in the mail from that other bank he

had asked about it and she had assured him it was nothing. It

was just a little something for a rainy day. He let her have her

way and never questioned her about it. He respected her right to

privacy he never opened her bank statements when they came.

The one thing that did bother him about her love affair with

money is that when they spoke about the future, she always

talked about ‘my retirement’, and never ‘our retirement’. Still he


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loved her and would do everything he could for her. He often

remembered the words of Paul in The Bible.

1Co 7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother

hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with

him, let him not put her away

Diana went to church with him, but it was obvious to him that she

didn’t really believe. Her god was money and with enough of it

she wouldn’t have to worry about a thing. The problem was that

no matter how much she had, it was never enough.

“We don’t need that much gas. Just get two gallons. That will be

more than enough.”

“Di, gas will cost more tomorrow than it does today. I wouldrather have it in the tank now, at this price, than in the ground

tomorrow because we can’t afford it. Give me the change.”

She grumbled, but went into her purse digging around for the

money. Carl noticed the money never came out of her purse so

he could see how much she had, but after a couple of minutes

she handed him $70 and said,

“At least leave me the five. I might need it for something.”


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He took the money, without comment and tucked it into his shirt

pocket. Soon he pulled into the gas station that has the cheapest

prices on the sign outside. After parking at the pump he went

inside to find the cashier. She was a rather tired looking young

woman, possibly in her mid-twenties, and she looked up at him

as he entered.

“I need some gas on pump seven.” Carl told her.

“You and everybody else.” She answered. “How much?”

“Seven gallons.”

“We can’t take debit or credit cards and no checks. It is cash

only.”

Carl handed over the money and she actually smiled.

“It’s good to see someone came prepared.”

The young lady punched some buttons on the register andannounced,

“You’re all set.”


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“Thank you.” He said and went to the pump.

Carl knew the way things were going and how people were just

beginning to become ever more desperate in this situation. For

that reason he employed all of the skills he had learned in the

service so many years ago. The first one was observation. He

noticed how there were a number of people near the gas station,

seemingly doing nothing. But he could see they were watching

him. While he seemed to ignore them, he walked to the pump

and began to put gas in the car. He knew it would happen and itdid. As he was pumping gas a muscular young man walked up to

him with a gas can in hand.

“Hey man, can you help me?” He asked. “I need some gas to get

to the store to get food for my old lady and me. Think you can

spare some of that?”

“If you can’t afford gas, how can you afford to buy food?” He slid

his hand into his pocket.

“Hey man, I don’t need any condemnation. I need the money I

have to buy food. Now come on, you can spare a little gas.”

“No, I can’t. I need it for my wife and myself.”


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“Oh come on man, give me some gas.”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t, maybe next time.”

The man dropped the can and pulled a knife from his back

pocket.

“I said give me the gas man.”

Carl looked at him, and sighed. He then said,

“This is stupid.”

“Are you calling me stupid old man?”

Carl now pulled the pistol. He pointed it at the young man as he

rolled the hammer back and told him,

“I guess I am. I think anyone that brings a knife to a gun fight is

stupid. Put the knife on the ground right now.”

The man’s eyes grew unbelievably large at the sight of the pistol

and the knife clattered to the ground.


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“You’ve done me no harm, so if you start walking I won’t hurt

you. Get moving.”

The man did so, looking over his shoulder to see if Carl was going

to shoot him or not. Once the gas was in the tank Carl got in the

car and started it.

“What was that all about?” Diana demanded.

“Protection.” Was all he said.


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Chapter Two

Diana, being so wrapped up in her anger didn’t even notice the

confrontation until the would-be thief was walking away. By that

time Carl had already returned the pistol to his pocket. She was

in such a state that even when Carl said ‘protection’ she didn’t

really notice or care what he was talking about. As soon as he got

back in the driver’s seat she was once again berating the store,

its prices and now the cost of fuel. Eventually she got to a point

where Carl thought he could possibly open her eyes about thereal world at least a little.

“How could the government let this happen?” she questioned

nobody in particular. “Why don’t they DO something? How can

they expect people to survive with these kinds of prices?”

“They are doing something.” He told her.

“Just what are they doing except sitting around and talking about

it?”

“They are controlling what happens.”

“Oh for goodness sakes, do you think THEY caused this?”


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“I know they did.”

“Oh, so they planned to make everyone go broke and wind up

starving on the street. Give me a break. And just when did they

do this?”

“It has been coming for a very long time. The signs were always

there for anybody to see. But most people refused to even think

of it as possible.”

“And you, being Mr. Know-it-all did see it coming.”

“Not at first, but after you have enough evidence the conclusion

is inescapable.”

“Oh really, and just what kind of evidence do you have?”

“A lot of it, I’m afraid. Let’s start with the economy. Diana, every

businessman knows you cannot spend more money than you

bring in and expect to stay in business. They used to say the

business of America IS business. This country has been spending

more than it brings in since the end of WWII.”

“Then they should have printed more money.”


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“They did. The problem with that is the more common an object

is, the lower its value becomes. For example, people don’t pay for

pebbles. But they will shell out large amounts of money for

diamonds and other precious stones. Why? Because they are

more rare. When they made money more easily available, the

value of it dropped. This gets us back to where I started. When

the money supply increased and the value of it began to drop it

took more and more dollars to pay for things, because the money

wasn’t as valuable. That is inflation. That means we couldn’t

make deals with other governments like we could before. The

money wasn’t worth as much.

To counter balance this ever increasing loss of value the

government made new deals. They allowed more and more cheap

foreign goods to be brought into America while the producers

paid lower and lower tariffs to get the goods here, to counter

balance the trade deficit. With the money not being worth as

much as used to be, people went for the cheaper foreign goods

and American companies began to feel the pinch. To stay inbusiness they had no choice but to lay-off or fire Americans and

have their products made overseas, then bring them here for

sale. That locked us into a cycle. Workers in this country had to

accept lesser pay and longer hours just to stay employed. With

less money to spend they had to buy the cheaper imports. This

meant more jobs overseas and fewer of them here.”

“So now you’re an economics expert.”

“No, I’m an over fifty year old man that has been watching this

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rate mortgage when we bought our home? The adjustable rates

were cheaper than the fixed ones at that time.”

“I never did understand why you did that.”

“I did it so that no matter what happened to the economy, the

interest rate on our home would remain the same. As it turns out,

I was right. Shortly after we got the house the economy took a

turn for the worse and those adjustable rates went through the

roof. You may remember a lot of people lost their homes during

that time. We didn’t lose ours and the mortgage payments stayed

the same.”

“Okay, okay let’s say you are right about what happened. Why

would the government do that?”

“In a word, control. The powers that be want total control over

everything. Mostly they want total control of the people. Look at

history. Every dictator and despot from the earliest recorded

accounts in The Bible, up to the rulers of today want total control

of the people. If they don’t have that control there is always the

chance that the people will rise up against them, and put their

head on the chopping block.”

“But this is a democracy. The people are the ones who decide

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“Do you really believe that? What you have described is a

republic, like we used to have in the beginning. When the people

told the politicians what we would have or do. What we have now

is a democracy where the politicians tell us what we can have or

will do. Haven’t you noticed how it works? Take the health care

law that was passed a while back. The first thing the people in

Washington did was to exempt themselves from the law. But the

rest of us had to deal with it.”

“Now I know you’re wrong. People didn’t have to use the

government’s health care system. They could keep their own

insurance if they wanted. We did.”

“That’s true. However our rates went up quite a bit. You see,

since the insurance system bore the brunt of the costs, they had

to raise their rates. That made it more difficult for most people to

continue their coverage. That, in turn, forced more people into

the government’s health care system. In short, by passing thatlaw the government gained more control over the people they are

supposed to protect and defend.”

“I can’t believe all of that. The government wouldn’t treat us that

way, they’d get voted out of office.”

“Would they? Haven’t you ever heard about all the time

irregularities were discovered both before and after an election?”

“What do you mean ‘irregularities’?”


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“I recall one time a voting machine had malfunctioned just before

the election. A man was called to get it working again. The roll of

paper inside the machine already had certain candidates marked.It didn’t matter who the individual voted for, the candidate

chosen by the government got the vote. Then there was the case

a few years back when the election of the president hung on

Florida. First one candidate was proclaimed the winner, even

before the polls had closed, and then the other was announced

the winner. It all came down to hand counting paper ballots and

deciding if the ballot was valid. In that case the ballots were

cards that got punched to show who someone had voted for. BUTit the little piece of paper punched out, didn’t separate cleanly

from the ballot, it was called into question. It didn’t matter that

only one candidate had been chosen on the ballot. It was

questioned because of a little hanging chad.”

“That kind of thing happens in every election.”

“Haven’t you noticed it happens more and more every year?

Slowly, bit by bit, the powers that be are gaining complete control

over almost everything we think, say or do. The voting, our

health care, the right to own any kind of firearm, the right to

even worship God as we choose have all become ever more

restricted during our lifetime. Can’t you see that?”

Diana was a woman whose entire sense of self worth was based

on being right every time. It didn’t matter if the facts were

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at hand. She was right and everyone else was wrong and that

was that. That was why she hated it when Carl laid the facts out

in such a way the she no longer had an argument. Unwilling to

admit she was wrong she would always change the subject.

Seeing a supposed flaw in Carl’s reasoning, that is what she did

now.

“You are just so wrong. The government hasn’t done anything

against people who go to church.”

“Haven’t they? America was once a Christian nation. Now in

certain places it has become a hate crime to stand on a corner

and preach The Word of God. Why? Because some people might

be offended. Yet at the same time it IS a hate crime for

Christians, or anyone else, to complain about the Islamic call to

prayer broadcast from speakers atop the local mosque. That

doesn’t sound like freedom of speech to me. It sounds like the

government is favoring one religion over another. And accordingto the Constitution the government isn’t allowed to do that. But

they are doing it anyway.”

“Now you’re just getting crazy. The government hasn’t done

anything against being a Christian.”

“No? Haven’t you seen the news stories about how military

chaplains have been banned from even mentioning the name of

Jesus Christ?”


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“I don’t believe that.”

“You and a lot of others, but that doesn’t change the truth. Think

about it. If the government took God out of the schools and

courthouses, why wouldn’t they take Him out of the military? If

the soldiers don’t fear God, then they can do anything without a

worry about condemnation. Soldiers like that can be used to

control any population, including their own nation.”

Diana had no further arguments to bring. Even though she knew

everything Carl had said was true, she could not bring herself to

admit that he was right.

“I think you are just being a know-it-all paranoid. You are

twisting the truth to suit yourself, and I won’t have anything

more to do with this discussion.”

Carl realized that once again he had failed at trying to get Diana

to see the world as it was and not what she wanted it to be. He

sighed and decided to give it one more shot when he said;

“We’re almost home anyway. However I want you to think about

this. When people can’t afford gas to go to work, they lose their jobs. When people lose their jobs they cannot afford enough food

to keep them fed. They have no choice but to accept whatever

the government doles out to them. That, my dear wife, is total

control. The government has a list of every registered firearm in

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will be required to hand them over in order to get something to

eat. But since I’m so wrong about things, do you want any help

carrying in the groceries?”

“Don’t get smart.”

Once they had arrived home, Carl suggested that Diana take the

bread and other things into the house. He was going to get his

old pickup truck out of the garage and pull the car into it.

“Why are you doing that?” Diana asked. “Just park it outside like

we always do. You know I hate backing out of the garage.”

“Because the truck only has one or two gallons of gas in it. This

car has a nearly full tank. I want to protect it inside the garage

instead of risking someone stealing it over night.”

Diana rolled her eyes and turned to go inside, muttering to

herself. “He is getting so paranoid.”

Carl got into the truck and backed it out, and into the yard. His

wife considered it an eyesore and insisted he put it in the garageto keep the neighbors from having to look at it. He then began to

pull the car in when Diana came up to him with an angry look.

“What’s wrong?” He asked.


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“Since you drove, I left my keys at home. Do you want to let me

in?”

“Oh, sorry.” He answered sheepishly. He got out and opened the

front door for her then went back to the car. He had just parked

the car and pushed the remote button for the garage door when

the inside door leading from the house to the garage burst open

and Diana rushed in with a look of pure terror.

“GET YOUR GUN! GET YOUR GUN!”

“What’s going on?” He asked getting out of the car without

shutting it off, and pulling the pistol from his pocket.

“There’s a man in our bedroom.”

He pushed past her and made his way cautiously into the house.

As he did so he saw from the corner of his eye someone making a

hasty exit through the kitchen area, heading for the sliding glass

doors leading to the back yard. Whoever it was managed to reach

and use the open door before Carl could catch up with him. As he

reached it he saw the man scaling the wooden back fence and

trying to leave as quickly as he could. Carl raised the pistol

preparing to fire, but didn’t. The house behind his had children

living there. If he missed the thief, the bullet would pass through

the board and could possibly hit one of the children or their


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parents. The risk was too great. He watched as the man

disappeared from sight and listened to the sound of quickly

receding footsteps before turning and going back inside. He found

Diana in the living room, shaking.

“Did you shoot him? I didn’t hear a shot.”

“He was too quick for me. He got over the fence before I could

get him in my sights.”

“What was he doing here?” She asked.

“Isn’t it obvious? He was stealing from us. Let’s go see what

damage he has done.”

They entered the bed room together to find everything on the top

shelf in both his closet and hers now on the floor, as if the thief

had simply swept them out of his way. The clothing on the rod

had either been pulled out and thrown to the floor or pushed to

the side as the man had been ransacking the place. Drawers in

the two dressers had been pulled out and dumped on the floor

and the drawers themselves simply tossed to the side. Diana’s

jewelry box was open and while the jewelry was no longer inside,it was laying on a towel on the bed.

“Why would he do that?” she wondered.


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“They call it ‘smash and grab’. You break in, grab whatever is

easiest to carry and run for it. He was going to get what he could

in that towel and leave with it.”

“Then why did he do all of this?”

“You didn’t notice.” Carl picked up one corner of the towel and

showed her the barrel of his shotgun and rifle. “He was probably

looking for the ammo for these two.”

“But you keep that in the hall closet.”

“He didn’t know that. I guess most people keep their ammo close

to the weapons. Since these were in the closet, he figured that’s

where it would be.” He sighed. “We were blessed today.”

“How can you say that? Someone broke into the house and did all

of this.”

“It looks like he only had time to get to one room so the rest of

the house is okay, and he didn’t find the ammo. If he had he

might have decided to shoot it out. That could have been very

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Diana paled at the thought. “How did he get in?”

“Through the glass doors. Somehow he slipped the latch and

walked right in. Let me check them for damage and see about

making them more secure.” He looked at her. Seeing she was still

carrying the forgotten bag of food he suggested, “Why don’t you

put that away and when I’m done we can get started on cleaning

up.”

They made their way back to the kitchen area when Diana

wrinkled her nose and asked, “What’s that smell?”

Carl flushed a little. “I closed the garage door and left the car

running. Could you get that while I check the door?”

“Put this in the kitchen.” She handed him the bag and went to thegarage.

Carl put the bag on the counter and went to the door. The thief

had used something to bend the metal strip on the door frame

back so he could get to the latch of the door. Once that was lifted

it opened easily. Looking down he found a claw hammer at his

feet. That explained what had happened. He used the hammer tobend the strip back into place and considered how best to secure

the door against future break-in’s. While he was working, Diana

entered the kitchen and starting putting thing away when she

made a discovery.


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“I DON’T believe this.”

“What is it?”

“Do you remember that bottle of champagne I got for our

anniversary?”

“Yeah.”

“That man drank at least half of it.”

“All things considered, that isn’t too heavy of a price.”

“But I was saving that.” She looked at what he was doing and

asked, “How can you make that safer?”

“I’d like to just board it up, but that will make it dark in here. For

now, I’ve got some lumber in the garage. I’ll install some kind of

a bar to keep the door closed even if the next guy jimmy’s the

lock.”

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Overthrown Book 14 Chapters 1&2