The elf responded “ As you have wished so shall it be”. There was flash of light and the elf was gone.

Tom continued on his way home thinking of all the people he could help with a million dollars, including his mother.

When he got to his room there were ten boxes . Each was filled with $100,000. There were dollar bills, five dollar bills, ten dollar bills, hundred dollar bills, and thousand dollar bills. All were neatly wrapped and labeled as to amount.

That night Tom couldn’t sleep  for fear somebody would break in and rob him. So the next day he borrowed his mother’s SUV and took the money to the bank. He deposited it in a joint saving and checking account. This was more money than the Littletown bank had ever seen. They gave him the usual toaster for opening the account.

Two days later as Tom was making up lists of people to help with the money the elf had given him two men came to the house. They identified themselves as FBI agents. The bank had, as required by law, informed the government of the sudden large deposit and they wanted to know where Tom got the money.

“Why an elf gave it to me”, Tom said.

The two men laughed and said you will have to come up with a better story than that. We think it is mob money that you are laundering.

“What mob?”, Tom asked.” There is no mob in Littletown.”

Well they hauled Tom down to the police station and questioned him all day. But he kept saying it was an elf. The men finally let him go home.

Word spread around town that Tom was part of the mob. All the people that he had helped shook their heads and said” He seemed like such a nice boy.” and were quick to believe he was a crook. They would have believed he was serial killer if you told them.

Now the government had a problem.They couldn’t prove it was drug money though they knew it had to be. They couldn’t prove the mob was in Littletown. They couldn’t prove that Tom ever left town. In reality they couldn’t prove anything except that Tom had a million dollars and

an unbelievable story of how he got it.

But little things like lack of proof never bothered our government. If you can’t get the crook one way you can get him another. They turned Tom’s