Chapter 8...Part 5

The next couple of weeks went fairly fast. The girl went to work everyday. The guest started working on her parents’ bathroom. He told them how he had redone his mom’s trailer bathroom and claimed to know all about it. Dave decided to trust him.

During this time Dave and the guest spent a lot of time together. What the girl was unaware of was that the guest was manipulating her father. He was doing the same thing to Dave that he had done to everyone else.

First of all the guest told the girl when she got home from work one day that he was going to California to get an RV from Mitch. He said he borrowed the money from a friend of his and that he was going to take care of things.

The guest was gone for 2-3 days and returned again without an RV or money or anything else. He claimed he talked with his lawyer when he was in California and that his lawyer was going to send them a check.

Then 2 weeks later the guest and Dave announced that they were going to Las Vegas. He said that his brother had tried to drive an RV to them and it broke down in Vegas. It was still under warranty so he said it was being fixed by Freightliner in Vegas and that they just needed to go pick it up.

No one in the house thought this was a good idea and all cautioned Dave about making this trip. Dave wanted so much for things to work out for his daughter that he decided to take the chance.

They set out to Vegas on Thursday of that week.

2 days later the girl sat in the kitchen with Gayle telling her that Dave was on the same journey she had just returned from.

The 2 got to Vegas and got a room. The next morning the guest left and went over to Freightliner and was told that it was going to take a lot longer to fix than they had anticipated.

The guest called his dad, James, and explained the situation. James told the guest that he would bring the extra RV to the guest then would just take the rental car back to California and turn it in. James brought the guest’s niece Tanya with him.

The guest told Dave that it would be better if they traveled down to Barstow and meet up with his dad there. So off to California they went. They stayed in the same hotel that the guest and the girl had stayed in when they were in Barstow the first time.

Sunday morning Gayle got a call from Dave telling her they were headed home. They had decided that the guest and Dave would drive the rental car back and James and Tanya would drive the RV back.