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bezzler was taking money but I found that the shop receipts were much more than I had estimated. Quickly examining the books I took enough notes to convict Jack in any court of law and then carefully replaced them in their proper place.

After leaving the Beauty Shop I decided to drive around for awhile to try and determine what course of action I should take. If I faced Jack with my evidence outright there was no telling what he might do as I had notes showing over $4500 missing over the past four months. If I brought the police into the matter it was probable that Denise would be able to send Jack to jail but would never be able to recover her share of the stolen money. After driving for about two hours I realized I was about out of gas and I pulled into a gas station to get some. The car was quickly serviced and as I pulled back onto the highway I had to brake hard to avoid a semi-truck bulling his way through traffic. All of a sudden the idea came to me that I would blackmail Jack into giving Denise the money he had taken and forc- ing him to sell his share of the business. Paul would naturally be the one to buy this share of the business. A feeling of elation came over me and I headed for the apartment to tell Denise what I had dis- covered and planned to do to recover her money. As I drove a plan formulated in my mind as to my plan of action.

When I arrived at the apartment I found Denise up and worried about where I had gone at this hour of the morning. Smiling, I sat her down and told her of the mornings events. A glance at the clock showed it to be 1:00 p.m. and that I had been gone since 7:00 a.m. Denise was very much upset upon learning that Jack had pocketed as much money as my records indicated. Denise commented that she had suspected for some time that Jack had been doing some em- bezzling but had never suspected that the offense was on a scale as great as this was at this time. I informed her of my "plan" which was to obtain photo copies of Jacks records and after confronting him with them to demand that he return the $4500 and sell his share of the business to Paul or Denise. An alternative I had in mind was to force Jack to sell his share of the business to Denise at a $4500 loss. Denise became rather irritated and mad at my ideas. She brought it to my attention that she had managed to pay up her back payments on the shop and would rather let things ride for awhile as though Jack's activities were undiscovered. In a short while I was to learn the reason for the delay.

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