He hadn’t realized that he had past the point of no return until he found himself frantically searching the house for anything that would remove blood stains.
“Remove impossible stains .. wine, grease .. even blood. I found it!“ shouted Robert from the kitchen. Walking back into the parlor, his brother Daniel was still standing over the body of Stuart Barclay, Daniel’s business partner.
“Great! Gimme that. We need to get this blood stain out of Meryl’s Persian rug before she gets back from her spa weekend. This is her favorite rug; it cost a fortune!
“Danny, I think you’ve got bigger problems to worry about than your wife’s rug” replied Robert. “Stuart’s dead! I saw the whole thing. He lunged at you and hit his head on the mantle. It was an accident. Why don’t you just call the police?”
“I can’t! It’s not that simple. He had evidence against me.”
“Meaning?”
“Stuart proved months ago that I was embezzling, forging last wills and testaments, other legal documents and he was gonna turn me in. He confronted me and I couldn’t let that happen!” Daniel ran his hands through his hair. “Listen, I knew he was having an affair so I had him followed. I have photos. I suggested he come over tonight so we could talk. It got heated and he came at me. You saw it with your own eyes, Bobby. Stuart and I reign over every other estate lawyer out there and this will ruin me. Now let’s just clean this rug and get rid of Stuart’s body.”
“What the fuck, Danny! How could you be so stupid?” exclaimed Robert. “Ok, don’t worry. We got this. I’ll scrub the rug and you look for a tarp in the basement. I have an idea. We’ll wrap Stuart in the tarp, put him in his car and you drive it down the back roads. I’ll drive my car down the main road and we’ll meet up near that ditch at Route 9. All we have to do is get him out of the tarp, place him behind the driver’s seat of his car and push it down the ditch. It’ll look like an accident. Then we’ll drive back here in my car. And Danny .. grab some rubber gloves, too.”
When Daniel returned with the tarp and gloves, the rug was clean. “Good as new!” Robert declared. “Ok, bro. Let’s do this!”
The brothers met at Route 9. Wearing rubber gloves, they removed the tarp, put Stuart in the driver’s seat of his car making sure the gear was in ‘DRIVE’, then pushed it down the ditch, watching it crash into a tree. On the way home, Robert tossed the tarp and gloves into an incinerator behind a condominium on Route 9. Everything went off without a hitch.
As they drove back to Daniel’s, Robert cautioned his brother to speak to no one. As if!
The next day the police discovered Stuart’s car in the ditch but there was no body to be found.
That evening Daniel got a call. “Hey, partner. You’re a bigger loser than I thought! We’ve got some unfinished business to discuss.”
Daniel turned white as a ghost. The caller was Stuart, the man he thought killed.
NAR © 2018
The Elephant's Trunk 
Alrighty then. I guess if you’re going to get rid of the body to make it look like an accident, you need to double check that the body is really dead. I think Daniel is in deep doodoo.
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Indeed. One would definitely think so!
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