December by Gabrielle Lord - Conspiracy 365 12 - December

Author:Gabrielle Lord - Conspiracy 365 12 - December [Lord, Gabrielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Adventure, Mystery
ISBN: 9781935279617
Amazon: 1935279521
Barnesnoble: 1935279521
Goodreads: 7923062
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

I couldn’t help thinking, as we hurried through the dark, sleety night, up the hill towards the Black Abbey, that this could all add up to a big fat zero. All we had was the word of one man—now dead—who thought the last two lines of the Ormond Riddle were in this mysterious book.

I wondered, too, why Sligo had murdered Dr Theophilus Brinsley. Was it out of frustration when he realised that Brinsley didn’t have the missing two lines? Or was it because Dr Brinsley wouldn’t tell him where they were?

But what if he had told him where they were? That would mean Sligo could already be in Kilkenny. Instinctively, I looked around us, even though it was almost impossible to see anything in the darkness.

The bulk of the Black Abbey loomed ahead. It was a low building with a short, square tower, its turrets barely discernible against the night sky. As we approached the stone wall that surrounded it, I grabbed the others, stopping them in their tracks.

‘There’s somebody there, look. See that van parked over there?’

‘Dude, let’s check out who it is. I’ve been wondering whether Sligo would be here already,’ said Boges.

‘Me too,’ I admitted.

‘Me three,’ added Winter, gripping my arm tightly.

We pressed on, cautiously, trying to keep out of sight of anyone near the van.

The van had its headlights on, illuminating the door to a stone building, adjacent to the Black Abbey, that I had mistakenly thought was part of the abbey itself.

‘What are they doing?’ whispered Winter.

‘Looks like they’re unloading something,’ said Boges, close behind me, as we watched two people vanish through the doorway.

‘They’re unloading books,’ I said. ‘Setting up for tomorrow.’

I put my hand in my pocket and grabbed my torch. This was a piece of unexpected good luck. Maybe we could sneak in and get a preview.

The three of us hurried through the drizzle and over to the deserted van. Inside, it was empty. They must have only just unloaded the last of the boxes.

Silently, we sneaked inside the building, following the same path the people from the van had taken. The sound of footsteps and voices echoed from the other end of the corridor.

‘Quick! They’re coming back!’ I hissed.

I opened the nearest door and the three of us scrambled inside, closing the door again behind us. I pressed my ear up against it, listening for movement. I heard the movers pass by outside in the corridor, then they left, slamming the door behind them.

A few moments later, the van started up and drove away.

‘OK,’ I breathed, slowly turning the handle of the door and checking the corridor outside. ‘We’re alone now. Let’s see what we can find.’

The lights had been switched off but we used our torches to guide us. We hurried to the end of the dark corridor where a door on my left and a flight of stairs on my right formed a T-junction. Passing my torch to Boges, I tried the door. It wasn’t locked. I opened it and walked inside.

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