Chapter - 9 Locked and Unlocked

Chapter – 9

Locked and Unlocked

We all ran up to the attic. On our way there, Bill had said that when he had first tried to look for a treasure, he had said that the sink didn’t work, the boards creak and the cupboard is locked forever. So far only the sink and the boards had been of any use to us, now it was turn of the cupboard to be helpful. There was an old, big and rusty lock on the cupboard. We all immediately set about trying to find the key of the lock. Martha found it, this is one of the reasons I say that girls are good at finding things, it was in the keyhole of the lock itself! Funny no one noticed it there. It all four of us to turn the rusted key. Suddenly the lock sprang open and the floor gave way beneath us, evidently it had been planned that when the cupboard would open, the floor would give way! We were falling! We fell about 3 meters and landed on a hard piece of ground. Martha was unconscious and the rest of us were in very bad shape. I got up on my feet just as the trapdoor which had made us fall snapped shut, however much I pulled it, it would not open. Martha was conscious now. We all tugged and pulled till the handle gave way and we were locked! We all sat about gloomily for we all now thought that we were going to perish in there. Jack’s eyes suddenly fell upon a piece of gold. He exclaimed,” Hey, look at this, it’s a piece of gold, which means that a treasure once stood here. Now it’s gone.” We all set morosely together for there was nowhere to go. Suddenly Bill discovered that he had a flashlight in his pocket. He turned it on and we all gasped, for there was a sort of corridor going away from where we were imprisoned.

          We all stumbled along in the dark because Bill was first and had the flashlight. Bill suddenly stopped he said,” Hey there’s a fork here, where do we go now?”Jack got an idea and said,” Does one corridor go up and one down? Bill cried out affirmatively. “So go up because we are already pretty high in the house and how much higher can we go? If we went down, then there it might get under the ground where catacombs might be present and we would get lost in them very quickly.” This seemed logical, so we went up. Soon Bill cried out that he had reached an opening in the chimney. Actually this was a problem (the descanting wasn’t a problem because the chimney had some bricks jutting out which we could use as steps) because mother had lighted a fire in the fireplace and we couldn’t descent with the fire on. So we waited until the dim glow of the fire underneath us died out in the night. I was worried because mother and father might be worried about us. We all descended down in the fireplace with the little piece of gold which Jack had spotted. We woke (a very worried) mother and father, and told them our story.

THE (HAPPY) END