Chapter 41

“Base here.”

“We’re on the way home,ETA in about an hour.”

“We’ll be waiting for you.Base out.”

When they finally pulled up by the loading dock at the warehouse,they saw that Marty and Sam were there ahead of them,and were unloading their vans.

Josh stopped the van,got out,and walked over to the two men.“Hi,guys.Have a good run?”

“Evidently not as good as you did,”Marty said,eyeing the playpens on top of the vans.“What’s with the playpens?”

“They’re full of clothing from a Walmart,”Josh said.“I thought I’d told you about that trick.Actually,it was Jake’s idea.The clothing doesn’t add that much weight,but we have to drive a bit more slowly and carefully.”

“Where’d you get the playpens?”Sam said.

“They sell them at Walmart.The first time we did it,we found the playpens in a Goodwill store we were scrounging in.”

“How’d you manage scrounging in a Walmart?”Sam said.“It’s awfully dark in thosestores,unless they’re new enough to have skylights.”