Mandie and the Secret Tunnel by Lois Gladys Leppard

Author:Lois Gladys Leppard [Leppard, Lois Gladys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Historical, Adventure, Young Adult, Childrens
ISBN: 9780871233202
Google: VYucJvjaamEC
Amazon: 0871233207
Goodreads: 156171
Publisher: Bethany House
Published: 1983-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 - Search for the Will

“Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me—”

The search for the will was more involved than anyone had dreamed. Jason Bond and the two girls covered every inch of the house—except the tunnel. The missing key had not been found either, after it had disappeared from Mandie’s bureau.

Mandie spoke to Mr. Bond about it, “I’ve asked Aunt Lou, Liza, Jenny, and even Abraham, and nobody has seen a key of any kind.”

“Could be that Mr. Bayne Locke has been in your room, Mandie, but don’t ask him about it. We don’t want him involved in what we’re doing around here. The less he knows the better,” Jason Bond told her. “You two girls just keep your eyes peeled. Maybe it’ll turn up somewhere.”

No one had been able to find the entrance to the tunnel from the inside of the house, and with the key lost, the door could not be opened from the outside.

Mr. Bond was leaving the dining room after breakfast one morning, when there was a knock on the front door. He went to see who it was, followed closely by the two girls.

A tall, middle-aged woman with gray, staring eyes, and a tall, brunette girl were standing there.

“I’m Mrs. Gaynelle Snow and this is my daughter, Ruby. I’ve come to claim my part of my uncle’s estate,” the woman announced to Mr. Bond.

“Well, dad-blast it! If everyone in the continent ain’t gonna try to claim John Shaw’s property!” he shouted angrily.

“What did you say?” The woman stared at him with her sharp eyes, then peered to get a glimpse of Mandie and Polly behind him in the hall. “Well, if you’re not going to invite me in, I guess I’ll just walk in!” She pushed the old man aside and stepped into the hallway. “Where are the servants? Tell one of them to show me to my room!”

“Room! You’d think we was running a hotel here!” Mr. Bond stood there ruffling his white hair, trying to resolve the situation.

Liza was crossing the hall just then and the woman, followed by her daughter, yelled at her, “Hey, you there, find me a room in this mansion!”

Liza stopped and stared at the woman and the girl and then looked at Mr. Bond.

“Might as well take them up to a room,” he sighed. “Claim they’re kinfolk. I’ll have to prove them a lie before I can throw them out.”

The girl turned her nose up at Polly and Mandie as she followed Liza and her mother up the stairs.

“Stupid ain’t the word!” Polly exclaimed.

“Right you are!” Mandie agreed.

After the unexpected arrival of Mrs. Gaynelle Snow and her daughter, Ruby, things took on an even livelier pace at the John Shaw house.

Mandie and Polly took the notion to move into a bedroom on the third floor. They had grown tired of the room on the second floor where Bayne Locke always seemed to be lurking in the hallway watching their every move. Jason Bond warned they would be too frightened up there and wouldn’t stay one night, if that long.

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