Ask the Author: Roland Cheek
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Roland Cheek
Writer's block, I've never experienced such a thing, therefore I can't respond.
Roland Cheek
the concept:
I was sitting in a barbershop in my hometown of Columbia Falls, Montana while the former Sheriff of Flathead County--a man known to sometimes jerk the chains of gullible listeners--held court while undergoing tonsorial polish.
Knowing that I guided folks from all over the world to adventure amid the Northern Rockies, the ex-sheriff asked if I was familiar with an old plane crash along the crest of the "Chinese Wall", in the vicinity of Salt Mountain. I told him I had photos of the wreckage. He said he jumped from a helicopter onto the crash site the day after it happened. "Want to know what I found in a a sidepocket of that plane?"
"Yeah, sure, Dick," I said, stifling a yawn.
"I found a vial containing twenty-six cut and polished, high quality sapphires."
"YOU WHAT!"
"Yup," he said, smiling smugly at the way he'd set his hook. "Of courses the FBI stepped in right away. Took the case away from me." He paused only a moment, before adding, "The sapphires were originally from Montana--Yogo sapphires it turned out, from their color."
"Were they legitimate?"
"Way I get it, nobody knows for sure. The FBI told me they figured the jewels were sapphires that disappeared from the Crown Jewels of Hesse during World War II. But since all English records were destroyed during the Nazi blitz of London, and since all German records vanished with the jewels, far as I know the case was never solved."
The barber brushed my storyteller for loose trimmings, then whisked away the cloth covering his shoulders. On his way from the chair, the former sheriff said, "There was one other thing, Roland: One of the occupants killed in that plane crash was an airman from the Malmstrom Airbase, there at Great Falls ..." I slipped from my jacket, then slid into the barber's chair while Dick continued: "... and that same airman was stationed at Frankfurt after Germany surrendered when the war ended."
When I made no further comment, he added: "Frankfurt is the Capitol and largest city in the German principality of Hesse."
I was sitting in a barbershop in my hometown of Columbia Falls, Montana while the former Sheriff of Flathead County--a man known to sometimes jerk the chains of gullible listeners--held court while undergoing tonsorial polish.
Knowing that I guided folks from all over the world to adventure amid the Northern Rockies, the ex-sheriff asked if I was familiar with an old plane crash along the crest of the "Chinese Wall", in the vicinity of Salt Mountain. I told him I had photos of the wreckage. He said he jumped from a helicopter onto the crash site the day after it happened. "Want to know what I found in a a sidepocket of that plane?"
"Yeah, sure, Dick," I said, stifling a yawn.
"I found a vial containing twenty-six cut and polished, high quality sapphires."
"YOU WHAT!"
"Yup," he said, smiling smugly at the way he'd set his hook. "Of courses the FBI stepped in right away. Took the case away from me." He paused only a moment, before adding, "The sapphires were originally from Montana--Yogo sapphires it turned out, from their color."
"Were they legitimate?"
"Way I get it, nobody knows for sure. The FBI told me they figured the jewels were sapphires that disappeared from the Crown Jewels of Hesse during World War II. But since all English records were destroyed during the Nazi blitz of London, and since all German records vanished with the jewels, far as I know the case was never solved."
The barber brushed my storyteller for loose trimmings, then whisked away the cloth covering his shoulders. On his way from the chair, the former sheriff said, "There was one other thing, Roland: One of the occupants killed in that plane crash was an airman from the Malmstrom Airbase, there at Great Falls ..." I slipped from my jacket, then slid into the barber's chair while Dick continued: "... and that same airman was stationed at Frankfurt after Germany surrendered when the war ended."
When I made no further comment, he added: "Frankfurt is the Capitol and largest city in the German principality of Hesse."
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