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Friday, August 5, 2022

bag of gold, part 2


by nick nelson

part two of four

for part one, click here




well, here we are. what do we do now?

try knocking on the door.

hey pete - pete? are you in there,

knock harder.

i don’t think he is in there.

look in the window.

it’s dark - i can’t see anything.

you are the one who wanted to wait until dark.

you got any other ideas? that window looks like we could get stuck in it

that door doesn’t look he spent any of his gold on it.

you want to break it down?

what else are we here for?

it’s dark in here. we don’t have any matches.

i brought matches, dumbhead.

look! there’s somebody on the bed! it must be pete!

a brilliant deduction.

is he dead?

dead drunk, probably. let’s look around.

he’s cold. he is dead!

good, now we have time to look around. you aren’t scared, are you?

not me.

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all right, we got the gold, let’s get out of here.

not so fast. let’s split it up first.

we can split it up later.

we can split it up now,

maybe we should just bury it somewhere. if we start spending it and they find his body the police will put two and two together…

i know all that. but if we just bury it and we both know where it is, how will we each know the other won’t dig it up? or one kill the other to get it all? better to split it up now and we won’t know where the other put theirs.

how are we going to split it?

fifty fifty.

i mean, we need another bag. do you want to look around here for one? let’s get out of here.

i brought a bag. for just this eventuality.

you and your big words.


part three


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