Dog… gone. Dog be fine in few days. Just gone. Little known fact–chain dog to tree on sidewalk six blocks away overnight. Dog tags rarely have add...ess–who wants crook finding house? Phone number, at most. Pooch had name, phone. Will be found by cops, dog-catchers, etc. next morning. Puts dog out of equation for twenty-four hours, easy. Trick of trade. Dog house cramped, but yard is dark. Good vantage point. Dog and yard in poor condition. Not likely to have visitor coming to see Pooch. Safe.. "He seems like a nice guy and Susan's not stupid,daddy. As long as he treats her nice and she's happy, what differencedoes it make?" Well, Susie's still in high school and he's my partner. I'm afraidpeople will talk."'Alex' shrugged. "He's only five years older than her and he is anice guy... and you were five years older than mom..."'Jason' licked the last of the batter from the bowl. "It's all gone." Want me to make some more."The policeman smiled at his daughter. "Why not. I'm not. " I told him.By Kendall family tradition, the first day of summer vacation was a day off for mom. I was on my own for breakfast. Instead of heading down for a shower and some breakfast, I threw on a pair of gym shorts and a t-shirt and headed out the door with Ned. I grabbed the tennis ball off that was Ned's current object d'fetch off the porch, and headed up Lacker, past the Ralston's, towards the intersection with Weisse Boulevard.Weisse was a diagonal cross road that abutted a bunch of. That was when we heard Mum come in and we jumped apart. We were just in time. She was like: What are you two were conspiring about? But she didn’t wait for an answer – just placed the lunch plates at the sink and told us that Dad wanted us to bring dessert into the lounge so he could show us some kind of slide show.Dad had paid one of those digital restoration companies to scan a bunch of old photos Mum had taken of us during childhood, and he’d got them ready to play from his laptop onto the.