Busted Axle Road Chapter 39
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| Time frame | December, 1987 |
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Locations
- Spearfish Lake
- Mike and Kirsten's house
- Mark and Jackie's house
- On the snowy trails to the Riverbend Campground
- Heather Sanford's rental apartment
Characters
Summary
Mark rings Mike up suggesting they take the dogs out, which evolves into an overnight camping trip on part of the route to Warsaw. Kirsten reluctantly goes along with the plan. Mark & Mike spend some time discussing the proposed race.
Mike has just got back from his dogsled trip with Mark when John & Heather turn up. They go downstairs to avoid noise from the TV and Tiffany & Henry, although Kirsten does send Tiffany down with drinks for them.
Heather admits that although she still believes in the Defenders of Gaea, she now thinks that McMullen and Harper are crooks. However she can't prove it as there are two password locked directories on the mainframe that she can't access.
There is a Defenders membership meeting coming up where McMullen and Harper are standing for re-election, she needs help to mass mail the membership to try and get enough proxies to defeat the two. Mike agrees to help on the condition that Heather drops the local lawsuit over the snake, and Heather feels that she is forced to agree.
Heather gets a phone call at 2 in the morning from someone trying to disguise his voice. He gives her the two passwords she needs to get into the locked directories. Neither John nor Heather know who the call is from, though Heather suspects it is Mike McMahon [probably actually the youngster who works on computers for Mark].
The two locked directories prove to have all of McMullen & Harper's dirty secrets, including the details of the Swiss bank accounts where over $20 million has been salted away.
Heather is angry at how they intend to subvert her anti-whaling plan. John has the idea of stealing the money hidden in Switzerland back from Harper and Dale.
The chapter ends with John saying We could steal it back, and they couldn't accuse us of doing it without admitting that they'd stolen it in the first place.
