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We don’t want them finding a bag of cash laying out in the open. Need to stuff that in the safe after you all fish some more out. Courier pouch won’t fit there. Need to hang that in my room and put some stuff in the top to make it look more like a travel bag. Ah, the pens and notebooks from my duffel will do nicely” I said.
Giant wasn’t paying attention, he was fishing for cash. Actually sorting through bills this time. He was counting out amounts for each of them. “I’ve got enough for now” Stretch said. Once I get these coins loaded I won’t need much more.”
Well, I’m hoping that is the last time we use that card” I stated. “After we get done site seeing tomorrow we should look for a place to get pre-paid cards for each of you with just a couple hundred in cash, then find a place which will buy a few small diamonds and load that sale onto one. If your coin dealer works, someone else can go there once we have new cards for Slim and Giant. They can get a couple of ingots loaded.”
Did you forget about the place I know, roughly an hour from here?” asked Stretch. “We can get cards there too.”
Yes, and no” I responded. “You all need at least one card from here with a bit of walking around money on it. I was hoping to save the place you know until the car is done. You hope the company doesn’t know of that place, but, if they deal with the dark side it just might. Besides, since they are something of a gamble I was going to make it a big gamble and unload the largest dozen or so diamonds there. Trim the courier pouch down to just baggetts and stones under half a carrot in size. Those can be passed off at any pawn shop. Those I actually had receipts made for so the paperwork will check out when a pawn shop or jeweler runs it. The big stuff I didn’t.”
If you are done counting cash Giant, put the bag in the room safe.” He hadn’t heard anything which was said once he started counting cash. Some guys can’t hear when they are salivating. Slim noticed this too.
Giant!” he said in command tone. Giant snapped to. “Put the bag in the room safe, you’ve pulled enough. We can’t carry that much. Pulling out a wad is exactly the kind of attention we don’t want.”
Slim was right to go with him. Left on his own Giant would be found and killed in less than two days. He would go right back to shopping at those exclusive stores where sales of clothes in his size are easy to track. He would be hanging out in expensive coffee shops and generally leaving a trail of bread slices, not just crumbs.
He wasn’t smart enough to clear the browser history and that was the first thing I was going to check once they were gone. That suspicious little demon in the back of my mind was saying Giant got up early, booted the laptop, and went right to that company sponsored retirement account trying to get the money out. Giant may be good in that trio. He might even be deadly hand to hand, but. Left on his own, he is a beeper for blind snipers to shoot at. While I feared what would happen when we finally arrived at our destination, I feared Giant getting us killed before we got there more.
A shave and hot shower really change one’s perspective. I gathered up laundry and got some change from the front desk then dumped in two loads and returned to the room. My clothes weren’t expensive enough to steal.
Giant wasn’t even smart enough to turn off the computer. Browser history isn’t saved when powering down a live disk. That would have covered his tracks. I scraped the browser history into a text document and found the guest printer on the network. Then printed it out. While I was going to leave the computer on for the others to see, I wanted a hard copy just in case.
It appeared he spent much of the late evening and early morning trying to set up on-line brokerage accounts with big name American based brokerage firms. The exact same firms who got hammered for penny stock transactions. Even if they weren’t they wouldn’t do him much good. He ignored the part about needing off-shore brokerage firms in countries without a U.S. extradition treaty. This greedy little shit was going to get us all killed.
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