Aviary, The by O'Dell Kathleen

Author:O'Dell, Kathleen [O'Dell, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375989353
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-09-13T05:00:00+00:00

Clara could not believe her eyes. She thrust her hand into the box and pulled the handbill from the top of the pile, tearing it slightly down the center. At the bottom of the paper was mentioned in small print:

Assisted by his wife, Cenelia,

and the young Neurypnologist

Woodruff Booth!!!

ENTRANCING audiences

at home and abroad!

Clara immediately thought of showing this broadsheet to the birds. Presumably, the Glendoveer children had seen these advertisements when they were … alive. What would Frances say when she read it?

Anxious for more, Clara dug in again. There were several velvet jewel cases that she piled one on top of the other, a sheaf of posters featuring the missing Glendoveer children (just like the one Clara had found upstairs), and a large book of some kind. No, not a book but an album. Holding her breath, she turned it over and saw the lock.

It was here in her own hands: Mrs. Glendoveer’s stamped leather album!

Clara pictured her mother rounding up everything she could find and hammering it into this crate. “I might never have found it,” she said.

And now another problem presented itself to Clara: how to hide the damaged box from her mother.

Hastily, Clara tucked the jewel cases into the pockets of her pinafore and set aside the handbill and the precious album. There was no question of her repairing the box, so she turned it hole-side-down and dragged it back where she found it. She crept up the stairs, back into the closet, and listened with her ear on the door for signs that her mother and Ruby had returned. When she was satisfied, she tiptoed to her room and laid all the objects on the bed.

The first velvet box had a ribbon that resembled a military decoration, inscribed with HONORARY MEMBER OF THE COURT OF OLAV. Another was from a Leopold II of Belgium. Another held the key to the city of Lockhaven—which made Clara wonder if it was actually possible to open and close a city with a key.

The last box was stamped inside on the satin lining with the names Eicholt and Goessler, Lockhaven Jewelers. Beneath a folded paper were gleaming cuff links with the two letter Gs, exactly like the one in the handbill.

Clara took the paper and spread it out.

George—

Glendoveer and Glendoveer, forever linked.

With love, my darling!

Your bride, Cenelia

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