Chapter 136 Chapter 136: Just A Well

Chapter 136 Chapter 136: Just A Well
Zeus grabbed the tunnel map and began tracing a possible track through the underground. Nothing would surprise him anymore. Old man Raggetti had a slew of secrets all right. He looked up at Leon and asked, “Can you have a couple of your men wait for him where the tunnel comes out? Maybe we can catch him that way.”
Leon studied the map and figured out where that tunnel came out and directed some of his men to go there. He advised them to be careful because Barrett might just be taking a shortcut to get clear of them. Then he ordered another two of his men to follow the still tunnel to see if there was a connecting tunnel.
“You know what this means don’t you?” Leon asked as he stared at Zeus.
Zeus nodded. “Yeah, I know. He fucking found a way inside the compound, which means the money he’s looking for is right here under our noses and only he knows where it is.”
Just then, the door down the hall opened up and Alfredo came back down the hall. When he arrived, he looked at Leon’s face then at Zeus.’ He then used his cane to come over to where they stood. “What’s wrong now?”
“We’ve found that the underground tunnels might all be connected,” Leon stated in disgust. “Then we found out Barrett might have gotten inside the compound and he might be here to recover the money before we can catch him.”
“Dannazione,” Alfredo swore. “My father was a madman wasn’t he?” He shook his head and looked at the table. The map Zeus got when they bought this place was sitting there all spread out. Alfredo paused then pulled it close to him. Then he began studying it. He frowned as if trying to remember something from the time he was a child. He looked up at Leon and said, “It’s not here.”
“What’s not here?” Leon asked.
“I remember when I was a kid. We’d come down here to spend the summer and one summer when I think I was about nine or ten maybe.” Shaking his head he said, “That doesn’t matter, anyway we were here for the summer and of course, there were men here working, digging and stuff and I got curious so I was following the men around and they were digging something. I asked one of them what they were doing and he told me they were digging a new well. I asked what happened to the old well and he said they had to cement it shut as the water went dry. I asked where the old well was and he told me to go away. He didn't have time to answer a bunch of stupid questions. So I went exploring. My dad had gone to town for something or another and I just wanted to look around. I didn’t figure on bothering anyone and they were busy anyway, so I was looking for the old well.”
“Old man, what does that have to do with anything?” Captain asked.
“Well sonny, I’ll tell you in a minute if you’ll let me.” Alfredo growled, then looked at Leon and continued, “I stumbled across the old well and peered down into a deep hole in the ground. I saw an old liner that came up to the surface and they filled part of the hole with cement to make sure it was topped off and no water would leak through the opening. But the hole wasn’t closed up yet and being the curious little shit that I was, I leaned over too far and slid into the old well. I got scraped up a bit but for the most part, I was okay. I screamed and screamed and no one came around to find me.” He shrugged. “Everyone was busy I suppose, but the longer I was in that hole in the ground the more afraid I became. No one came looking for me, not even my father. Soon, it got cold out and I looked up and found it was dark outside and still no one came looking for me. I spent the entire night and most of the next day inside that hole before my dad even noticed I was gone. By the time he found me, I had no voice left from screaming my heart out to let someone know where I was. I was terrified, hungry, and thirstier than hell and I had cuts and scrapes all over my body. Then on top of all of that my dad got mad at me and gave me a beating besides.” Alfredo shook his head. “I was grounded in the house all summer.”
“What a guy,” Zeus quipped.
“Yeah, my dad was a peach all right.” Alfredo shook his head with a look of disgust on his face.
“So, what’s that got to do with any of this?” Captain asked.
Alfredo tapped the map. “The old well isn’t on this map. The hole was cement lined and had cement plugging the tube the water would have come up through the ground in. If Barrett knew about the well, he could have tossed the money bag in there and then not worry that anyone would think to look for it there.”
Leon groaned and closing his eyes, he tipped his head back. “Of course. That makes sense doesn’t it?”
Calderone leaned forward and asked Alfredo, “Do you remember where the old well was on this map?”
Alfredo shook his head. “So much of the landscape has changed around this house I just can’t remember that shit anymore. All this happened sixty years ago.”
Click shook his head while typing on his laptop. 
Zeus gazed over at his IT and asked, “What the hell are you doing?”
“Looking up well placements on the property. There are schematics and constructs, ya know?“
“Speak English, brother,” Zeus told him.
Click looked up at his boss and sighed heavily. “Ok sorry, when the old well went dry, Alfonzo brought in a water man.  He found a good spot, but Alfonzio did not want that spot. There was a smaller one but with less water and the quality wasn’t as good. They drilled the new well and got it going. They capped off the original well and cemented it shut. The next year when Alfonzo came down for the summer, he ran out of water. He complained but it was his own damned fault.” 
“Is there any kind of map with the drilling places listed on it?” Zeus asked.
Click went to the next page of the report and nodded. “Yep, they drew us a map.” He hit a few keys and soon he could hear the printer in his office as it spewed out a few pages. He got up and walked to the office and found Desi and Delaney there.
Desi was holding the map in her hands while staring at it.
He cleared his throat.
Looking up at him, she asked, “What is this?”
He stared at her in confusion. “It’s a map of the wells on the property, why?”
“Because I’ve seen this map before,” she told him.