Henry Wood Detective Agency: Ch 24 cont
Luna and Henry walked back to the car in silence, Luna holding the tiny box firmly in both hands. Henry broke the silence as he put his key in the door, to unlock it. “That went well, not as all as I had expected.” He opened the passenger door and Luna slid into the car with just a nod. The sound of the door closing door and the silence that followed Henry back around the car, reminded him that Luna was holding a message from her father. He thought about the fear she had been living with since the day he went missing, and how she had maintained her wits throughout it all. She was a tough cookie. He got in the car and started it up.
They drove for a little while, again in silence. Luna said in a quiet voice, “Should I open it?”
“Yes.” Henry said, keeping his eyes on the road.
Luna took off the lid and set it in her lap. She opened the piece of paper and then read it aloud.
Dear Luna,
I hope this message finds you well. We are doing fine, but miss our girls. Please tell Sylvia and Winston that her father is safe. He feels terrible about what he put her through, but apologies will have to wait for later. I hope that this codex, the list of names, and the journal will be enough to put the people who would harm us, behind bars.
Love,
Dad
“The rest is the remainder of the codex.” She said with a sigh. “It isn’t dated, so I don’t know when he left this for us, but I do feel a bit better.”
Henry smiled at her. “Yes, I do too. Now that we can decipher the journal, we will know what Tommy ‘The Knife’ has been up to, and why your father had to disappear.”
“It is a good thing we made that copy to give to the DA. I thought you were crazy at the time, but it looks like you were right about him.” She said, returning the message to the tiny box.
“Yes. I can smell a rat. And the stink on him is almost overwhelming.”
There wasn’t much more to say. Henry drove and Luna rapped her fingers on the lid of the box. She was thinking about her father, wondering where he was, and Henry was forming his plan. He would need to get some help. He would need a bit of luck.
