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“How soon do you start your big vacation?”
“Oh, couple of days.”
“Wish I had good news for you, but I don’t. We had to release that employee of yours, Alonzo.”
“Release him? Why Sheriff? I thought he—”
“Not enough evidence. And now we’ve hit a stone wall. In the week since your bank reported the big embezzlement, we’ve interviewed every one of your employees—and come up empty.”
“Yeah?”
“And this is a small town. It’d be hard to hide that kind of cash.”
“Uh huh.”
“So, did you say you and your wife were going to South America?”