Chapter 20

“Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!”

My heart nearly stopped when Wilbur went crazy. Had he heard a knock? Were the Feds on my doorstep?

“What, Wilbur?” He never carried on like this, not even when someone came to the door for real. Wilbur loved trick-or-treaters. I’d already bought a ton of candy for the 2018 Halloween season, several bags to eat and several to give out. My neighborhood had a lot of kids. The screeching witch wreath went up on the front door October 1, a skeleton with flashing eyes was on the mailbox, and I’d placed a ceramic jack-o-lantern with a battery-operated candle in all eight front windows weeks earlier.