Gold Medal Murder by Keene Carolyn & Dixon Franklin W

Author:Keene, Carolyn & Dixon, Franklin W. [Keene, Carolyn & Dixon, Franklin W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Childrens, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781442403277
Amazon: 1442403276
Goodreads: 8516483
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2010-06-21T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

TWO KILLERS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE?

FRANK

“We’re nearly there!” George yelled to me as we raced through the streets of downtown LA. She had her smart phone out and was reading the directions to the Good Samaritan Hospital from the screen. “Take a left at the next corner.” It wasn’t that far away, and given LA’s traffic, we figured we’d make better time on foot.

We arrived, out of breath, outside of the wide white expanse of the hospital, just as a taxi pulled in.

“Wait for me!” Joe yelled. He threw some money at the cabbie, and together we all ran into the lobby. We nearly flew up the steps to Lexi’s room.

Lexi lay on the bed, her eyes half-closed. Between the exhaustion and the painkillers they had her on, she wasn’t fully conscious. There was a bandage wrapped around her left leg, but she didn’t look too bad. Nancy and Bess were sitting in two chairs on either side of the room, half comforting Lexi, half guarding her. A curtain ran down the middle of the room, cutting it in two.

“Poor Lexi!” George murmured.

“What’s going on?” Lexi mumbled, her eyes still closed.

“Gang’s all here,” said Nancy. “It’s a party.” She stood up and stepped away from the bed. In a hushed voice, she explained what had happened.

“How is she?” I asked when Nancy was done.

“She’ll be all right. The wound wasn’t too deep. The doctors said she needs to take tomorrow off, but she can go back to training after that. But take a look at this.”

Nancy pulled a plastic sandwich bag out of her pocket. Inside was a small piece of metal.

“The doctors let me keep it. It’s the tip of the saber Lexi’s opponent was wielding.”

She passed it around to us.

“What about it?” I asked. Clearly, it was the tip of the sword that had injured Lexi, but I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to see in it.

“Whoever did this was smart. I looked at the rest of the sword while I was giving Lexi first aid. They hadn’t tampered with most of it—if they’d sharpened the edge or anything, an experienced fencer would have noticed the weight difference. All they did was sharpen the point the tiniest bit. Not enough so that you’d feel the difference if you were just holding it—”

“But enough to make it dangerous,” Joe finished.

“Not just dangerous,” Nancy replied. “Lethal. If that strike had been in her chest, the doctors said it could have punctured a lung.”

A commotion had begun in the hall while Nancy was talking. It got louder and louder, until soon, a recognizable voice was screaming outside of the door.

“I don’t care who you are! She’s my daughter, and I am going to see her!”

David Adams shoved the door so hard it slammed into the wall. An gray-haired nurse with a stern face trailed after him.

“Sir, your daughter needs rest! And you are being belligerent.”

“You don’t know what my daughter needs! You incompetents! If she can’t compete tomorrow, I will sue you!”

“Dad?”

Lexi’s voice drifted up weakly from the bed.

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