Chapter 138 Chapter 137: Follow The Crumbs

Chapter 138 Chapter 137: Follow The Crumbs
“What are you talking about, old man?” Zeus grumbled.
Alfredo shook his head. “My father taught my son to hide something in plain sight. A very useful little trick, no? That was something Barrett liked to do with his own sons. What if those same sons used those same tricks to hide their retirement money? Maybe they planned all along to drive you folks off this place anyway. I know now that Vincent was ready to push you guys out and take this house back. That was what he was trying to do by using this Sam woman. I have a feeling Barrett and the other two boys told him to have it done before Barrett got out of prison. That was why he kept coming with the intent to flush you boys out in the first place. Barrett would have expected it to be done by now. That would have given them time to find everything my dad left behind and get their hidden bounty as well.”
“Yeah and we all know how dad takes disappointment don’t we?” Delaney growled.
“Do you really think your brothers would have used this place as their bank as well?” Leon asked.
Delaney shrugged. “I don’t really know, do I? My brothers stopped talking to me a number of years ago and this is something they wouldn’t tell me anyway. They always thought I didn’t matter because that’s the way my dad treated me, like I didn’t matter. But they would have trusted me about as much as Dad trusted them. Which is not at all.”
Leon sighed hard and said, “Let’s take another look at the map and see if we can figure out where your brothers would have hidden their treasure in plain sight.”
Delaney gasped a little, as she suddenly looked startled.
 “What is it honey?” Alfredo asked her.
“They had to pick something that would never be destroyed or thrown out right?” she whispered.
Alfredo cocked his head at her. “What are you saying?”
“What about the stills?” She pondered as she bit at her lip. “They wouldn’t have even been discovered if these guys hadn’t found the tunnels. We only knew about them because we know the history of this place and this family.”
Leon paused to think about this for a moment then reminded her, “But your dad blew up the still room when he set off that charge, didn’t he?”
“Maybe but no one looked at the wreckage did they?” She looked a bit excited as she laid it out for them. “Maybe the still was Vincent’s bank? Maybe he put the money he got from Marty in there, thinking it would still be there when he got out of jail?”
Leon called his security team and had a couple of his men check out the still room…to check out the stills themselves specifically.
They all waited for some word from Leon’s team.
The men who’d been sent after Barrett reported that they thought he had found a way out and was no longer there. Leon growled and told them to search again. He had to be there somewhere. He couldn’t just disappear.
Captain grabbed the map they had when they bought the place from Alfredo. Then he followed the tunnels that Zeus had drawn on the map. He then looked over at Delaney and asked, “Do you remember how you survived that blast that blew up the tunnel you were in?”
Delaney nodded her head slowly. “Yeah, I found an opening that led to another room altogether, why? What does that have to do with this?”
Captain paused as if he were trying to remember the event. “You said something about finding an entire other room behind the tunnel.”
Delaney nodded. “Yeah, there was another room behind me. The blast threw me away from the tunnel and that’s how I survived when two of those other men didn’t.”
“What are you suggesting?” Zeus stared at his Lieutenant.
“We might be sitting on top of a labyrinth of tunnels and hidden rooms just below our feet. We all saw Barrett enter one tunnel near the still room then the next thing we knew, we found a heat signature under this room and now they can’t find him? What the hell does that tell you?”
Alfredo nodded. “He could be right. My father loved mazes and this would be something he would do. Barrett and Carlos spent many hours listening to his wild stories from the moment they were ten years old, he used to sit and talk to them. I was busy trying to earn a legal living and was just happy my dad wanted to spend time with the boys.” He shook his head. “Now I see I was in the wrong about that.”
Leon paused and thought for a moment then he looked distracted for a moment. “Your father was a devious man. Lasciando solo trucchi e qualche briciola da seguire.” Then he turned to Zeus and asked, “You have the tunnels all blocked on this end, correct?”
“All the ones we found so far, but who knows if there are any more,” Zeus replied in a disgusted tone.
“Lasciando solo trucchi e qualche briciola da seguire,” Alfredo repeated what Leon had just said. He then got up and walked away rather rapidly while using his cane.
Delaney and the men watched him.
“What is that all about?” Grave Digger asked.
Delaney shook her head. “I don’t know.” She glanced at Leon. He just repeated what you said about Alfonzo, ‘Leaving only tricks and a few crumbs for people to follow.”
Leon shook his head and looked frustrated as he picked up his cell to check in with the teams who were searching the still area.
Alfredo returned with the book they found his father left under the hearth of the old fireplace. He sat down and opened it looking over each and every page to see if there was any mention of a map of any sort to the tunnel system below and around the house. “I am following the crumbs,” he muttered.
Delaney leaned over closer to look at it as well. After a few minutes, she spoke, “Wait a minute grandpa, go back one page.”
Alfredo turned back to the page before. He didn’t see anything. Gazing up at her, asked, “What is it? What do you see that I don’t?”
“I’m not sure.” She took the book from his hands and moved from one page to the next. Then her eyes widened and she looked up at her grandfather. She smoothed the page with her fingers carefully then pointed at the top corner of it.
Alfredo furrowed his brows and looked confused as he watched her actions.
Lifting the page, she laid it against the page before and pointed to the upper corner. Raising the book up to the light, she studied the overlaid corners and then everything came into view. The marks on the top corner were pointing out one of the tunnels under the building.
Click moved over to stand behind her chair and peered at it. Studying one page then the next, he exclaimed, “No fucking way.”