09 The Mystery of the Screaming Clock by Robert Arthur

Author:Robert Arthur [Arthur, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Bob Finds More Clues

09. The Mystery of the Screaming Clock

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The next morning Bob was hurrying through breakfast to get to The Jones Salvage Yard

when the telephone rang. It was Miss Bennett, the local librarian, asking if he could come in

and spend half a day or perhaps more helping out. Bob had a part-time job at the library,

helping mend damaged books, replacing books on the shelves, and doing other odd jobs.

He couldn’t very well say no, though he hated to have Jupiter and Pete working on the

mysterious messages without him. He told Miss Bennett he’d be there in twenty minutes, and

set off on his bicycle.

Miss Bennett greeted him with relief, for her assistant was away that day. Bob plunged

into work and was kept busy until lunchtime. Miss Bennett wanted him to stay for part of the

afternoon, too, and Bob agreed. He quickly ate the sandwiches his mother had made so he

could spend a few minutes doing some research.

On a hunch he decided to read up about hurricanes, for a hurricane was mentioned in the

first mysterious message. He read a long article in the encyclopedia, and came across a fact

which made him jump slightly with excitement. He wrote it down, and then checked up on

archery, especially old English bowmen. Again he came on a fact that filled him with

suppressed excitement. Next he tried oceans. Nothing that looked useful came to his

attention, and lunch hour was over, so he went back to work, anxious to get to the salvage

yard and tell Jupe and Pete what he had learned.

However, Miss Bennett needed him all the rest of the day, and it was not until five in the

afternoon that she finally thanked him and said that he could go. Bob streaked away on his

bicycle and rode quickly to the salvage yard. He found Jupiter and Pete unhappily at work

stacking second-hand merchandise in neat rows in back of the cabin which served as an

office.

“We’ve been working all day,” Jupiter explained as Bob got off his bike. “Uncle Titus

brought in a truckload of stuff this morning, and Aunt Mathilda has had us sorting it out ever

since. Hans and Konrad are off today. So we haven’t made any progress on our

investigation.”

“Did you hear from Harry at all?” Bob asked.

“Just a phone call. Mr. Jeeters cornered him and asked him what he did with us yesterday.

He scared Harry. Harry told him we’d gotten some crazy messages that didn’t mean anything.

He also told him about someone stealing the screaming clock. That seemed to make Mr.

Jeeters very angry.”

“Mr. Jeeters knows something we don’t,” Bob said. “If we ever solve those messages

maybe we’ll find out what it is. Listen, Jupe, I learned —”

“Jupiter!” rang out Mrs. Jones’ voice. “Step lively there! You haven’t finished yet. Bob

Andrews! I’m glad you’re here. You can start listing all this stuff Titus bought. Make a nice

neat job of it. I’ll go in and get dinner.”

She came over and shoved a big notebook into Bob’s hands. It was a record of

merchandise that had been added to the stock of The Jones Salvage Yard.

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