Ted Wilford 13 The Abandoned Mine Mystery by Norvin Pallas

Author:Norvin Pallas [Pallas, Norvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: boy, reporter, mystery, high school, detective
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2018-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10.

A PICTURE OF A GHOST

IN spite of being up till well after midnight, the boys were awake before eight the next morning.

“You know something, Ted? Just that little while we were down in the mine last night, and I could feel the coal dust sifting through my clothes and down my neck. If I hadn’t had a long shower and a complete change of clothes, I’d feel dirty yet. Well, what’s on the schedule for today?”

“I hope you don’t feel too clean, because I wanted to follow our original plan to go down into the mine ourselves.”

Nelson shrugged. “I’m willing, Ted, but why are we doing it? Didn’t that visit last night help take care of that angle?”

“It helped, but I’d still like to do something on our own. And there’s the matter of pictures, too. I’d like a few pictures taken inside the mine. We didn’t have any chance last night.”

“You won’t get any pictures of workers in the mine, Ted.”

“That’s all right, as long as the mine’s supposed to be closed anyway.”

“We’re after something more than pictures, aren’t we?”

“I suppose we are. It’s obvious that someone is trying to scare us out of town, and I’d like to know who and why. At first I thought it was the coal pirates, but that doesn’t seem likely, after what they did for us last night.”

“What about that? How does it rate as a newspaper story?”

Ted frowned. “I don’t think it rates anything, at least right now. Mr. Dobson always says he wants us to get the story we’re after, not the story people are ready to give us. Why do they want us to print this story, and how much of the truth are they really telling us?”

“Getting the mine reopened is a pretty good motive, isn’t it?”

“I suppose it is. Well, I’ll see how the whole thing fits together when I work on my long story. I won’t use it now, though I want to call the office around eleven o’clock. We ought to be back by that time. I’m not really after anything much this morning, except to get our bearings.”

“I thought the idea was to go at night,” Nelson remarked.

“Sure, but that was because of the coal pirates. If we go into the mine at the entrance where we found the Llewellyn children, we’ll be a long way from the coal pirates, don’t you think?”

Nelson laughed. “You kidding?”

“Why?”

“You mean he really did get you lost last night? Here, if you want to know where we went, let me show you.”

He spread his map out on the table, and traced a course with his pencil. It was not too easy a matter, for the unfinished roads were not shown on the map. But Nelson drew a line confidently, until he ended with a little circle.

“You’ll find the entrance to the mine right around there, and I’m betting I’m not more than a small fraction of a mile off. You don’t drive nearly as much as I do, Ted.

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