Secret 05: You Have to Stop This by Pseudonymous Bosch

Author:Pseudonymous Bosch [BOSCH, PSEUDONYMOUS]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: JUV028000
ISBN: 9780316194662
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

At exactly five minutes before five, after they’d all availed themselves of their last opportunity to use a bathroom, they entered the mummy exhibit for what they expected would be the last time. It was the last hour of the last day of the show, and the gallery was extremely crowded. This was a good thing and a bad thing: good because they were immediately camouflaged by the multitude of museum visitors, bad because there was no way to slip into the mummy’s chamber without being seen.

Unlike the cost of the tickets, the crowd problem hadn’t caught our young aspiring museum robbers by surprise. A diversion was called for, and they were expert at creating diversions. It hadn’t been long, after all, since Max-Ernest had staged an epileptic fit so masterfully authentic that it brought a hospital emergency room to a halt.

Cass nodded discreetly in the direction of the security guard watching over the mummy exhibit. The guard was somebody they’d seen before but had never met. There was a decent chance she would recognize them, and it was risky to interact with her, but they had no choice if they were to proceed with their plan. They needed to get her out of the room and then to draw the crowd’s attention away from the mummy’s chamber long enough for them to sneak into the chamber and lie down in the sarcophagus. About one and a half minutes in all, they estimated.

Yo-Yoji and Max-Ernest nodded back. The plan was a go.

Max-Ernest looked at his watch, then started counting down with his fingers. Three… two… one… time to move.

As the three friends separated, taking their respective positions across the mummy exhibit’s main room, they held their breath. They weren’t entirely inexperienced when it came to criminal activity. As you may recall, in the course of their past adventures, they’d been forced to acquire certain necessary objects through, let’s say, creative methods. Nonetheless, they’d never robbed a museum before, and they couldn’t help feeling more than a little anxiety about the job ahead. A museum robbery is the kind of thing you see on the news; you don’t necessarily expect to be involved in one yourself. The fact that they intended to return the mummy’s finger later, reattached to the missing mummy, might or might not have justified their actions on a moral level, but it didn’t make what they were doing any less terrifying.

Their plan had two parts:

First, Yo-Yoji uncapped a water bottle and stealthily emptied it next to his foot, creating a large puddle on the marble floor. Before anybody noticed the puddle, he walked quickly to the animal section of the exhibit and pretended to examine a display of a mummified cat. Only after staring at the display for a moment did he realize that the cat was missing; all the animal mummies had been packed in crates that were lined up against the wall in preparation for the exhibit’s move to Las Vegas. He glanced around—happily, nobody had seen his mistake.

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