Mysterious Tales by Michael White

Author:Michael White [White, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eighth Day Publishing
Published: 2014-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

“Well, for a start we were waiting on the doorstep for the garden centre to open the next day.” Billy said, chuckling. Sue joined in too.

“I’ll bet that doesn’t happen to them very often.” she noted. “Anyway, once they let us in it was straight off to the outdoor area and the display of garden ornaments once again...”

***

“I don’t think they’ve opened up the doors yet.” said Sue as they crossed the greenhouse display area, and ignoring the vast displays of seeds and bird houses, yanked on the large door that led to the outside display area to pull it open. It wouldn’t budge so Sue stood almost hopping from foot to foot until a member of staff arrived some five minutes later to unlock and yank the door open whilst at the same time giving the couple standing there a very strange look. Billy returned his stare, as if daring him to make some kind of sarky remark, which the member of staff seemed to decide better of, and left hastily. They went through the now open door and walked briskly to the long lines of garden ornaments, and began to carefully examine each one. Sue began her search with the large collection of animal ornaments to start with, almost as if she was willing the word “shadow” and “ornament” to suddenly spring to life in front of her and failing miserably. As Billy caught up with her she sighed loudly and sat down on the bench they had been sitting on the day before.

“Looks like we are stuck again.” she said. Billy wandered up and down amongst the aisles of strange stone objects, stopping to inspect one or two periodically before moving on. Eventually he had to concede defeat too and sat down beside Sue on the bench.

“None of them seem to have a shadow in the design.” he sighed. “Mind you, what ornament does?”

Sue sighed. “That’s true.” she paused to think for a while, then started to think out loud. “So the riddle says a shadow. But you can’t have a stone shadow.” Pause. Billy shuffled beside her, trying to catch her train of thought.

“What about something that would use a shadow?” she mumbled as Billy frowned.

“How can you use a shadow?” he asked, before catching a display off to his left. “Bloody hell, Sue!” he shouted. “A sundial! Over there! It’s the sundials!” They both shot from the bench and over to where a small display of sundials were not too carefully placed. Unfortunately they all seemed to be made of plastic or wood. “This is either a change of plan or whoever’s doing these riddles has changed his or her job.” said Billy, quickly upending them in turn. “Nothing.” he said. “But it’s got to be right. Just that the crafty sod is changing the game a bit.” As they sat there seriously untidying the sundial display a member of staff appeared amongst the flower beds and seemed to be eying them suspiciously.

“That’s all of them.

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