Chapter – 5
Excitement
We all could
hardly control our excitement the day I and Martha had decoded the code. We
were all sitting at our breakfast tables, trying to think of eating instead of
digging up the basement, boards and all. After a hasty and much
not-admired-by-parents breakfast, we set of to the basement. We all had earlier
decided that we should not mention this whole affair to our parents or any
other grown-up person, for they might take the whole matter out of our hands.
When we reached the basement, I realized that none of us exactly remember where
the hole was owing to the lack of furniture (which would have made very good
pointers to the location of the hole and also that the basement was very big
and we had never explored all of it). We all panicked and crawled on all fours
in order to accidently touch the rim of the hole. Jack suddenly got an idea; he
remembered that Bill, when he had earlier gone to look for a treasure, he had
mentioned that some of the boards creak. So all we had to do was to find the
boards because they might be hollow underneath due to the hole and assuming
that it was wide because the decoded code had told us to dig. Sure enough, when
had all stamped about, trying to find the hole, we did find it.
We set to work (we had brought some
small 20 cm shovels with us), in about 20 minutes, the boards near the hole
fell in and there beheld the most stupendous sight a boy ever saw!
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