Chapter 17 Tarry Ross
While Avery was at work the two women finished the last two cupboards of files. They had a mountain of photocopied pieces of paper. By two-thirty in the afternoon it was all in boxes in a storage room in Georgetown. Over the next few days Tammy flew in and out of the Caymans and carried the papers to a one-room apartment in Brentwood, near Nashville. There she started the long job of listing and describing all the contents. Mitch had told her it was urgent.
Tarrance was surprised when Abby came to the meeting instead of Mitch. But she was no less efficient. She gave him the instructions for wiring the first million dollars to a bank in Freeport, in the Bahamas.
"And when do we get the files?" Tarrance asked.
"As soon as we hear the money's in Freeport, we'll send you a key to a storage room somewhere in Memphis. Any questions?
"Yes. Are you making progress in getting the dirty files?"
She smiled. "We already have most of what we need. By the time we finish we'll have ten thousand dirty files for you."
Tarrance was excited. "Where are they?"
"Not with the clean files, I promise you."
"But you have them?