The Mystery in Dracula's Castle by Vic Crume

Author:Vic Crume
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: mystery, dracula, juvenile, disney
Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
Published: 1973-05-13T12:42:33+00:00

Watson was not a dog to give up easily — not where a bright shiny treasure was concerned. And luck was with him!

Broom in hand, Noah Baxter opened the storage-room door. As he swept a heap of sooty ashes outside and whisked them into the sand near the entrance, Watson saw his chance. When the man's back was turned, he scooted through the door and lost no time in reaching that interesting top floor.

Keith Raynor was sitting at the table working carefully on the very thing Watson had come to view — and take home, if possible.

Keith lifted the third ruby from its setting, put it into a small box on the table, then began to chip lightly at the setting of the fourth ruby.

Watson trotted over, sat down by the chair, and thumped his tail cheerfully to signal his arrival.

Keith looked down. "How did you get in here?" he asked. Then a worried look came over his face. "Noah!" he called. "Are those kids back again?"

"No," came the answering shout.

Watson thumped his tail again and whined pleadingly.

Keith put down the necklace. "You hungry?"

Watson obliged with a sad whine and Keith pushed back his chair. "Okay. Okay. I'll get you a cookie or something."

When Keith disappeared down the stairs, Watson leaped onto the empty chair. From there it was no trouble at all to seize the glittering gold necklace. He didn't stop to admire it — there would be time for that later. He bounced down from the chair, rushed for the stairs, and nearly collided with Keith Raynor on his way back up.

"Hey!" Keith exclaimed. "Couldn't you wait?"

Watson bounced past him, the necklace swinging from side to side.

"Noah!" Keith shouted, horrified. "Stop that mutt! He's got the jewels!"

Too late! Watson was already out the door and into the knee-high grass on the land side of the lighthouse.

In seconds, Noah and Keith were in hot pursuit.

"Where'd he go?" Keith panted, searching for any movement in the grass.

"Over there!" Noah leaped ahead.

They were just in time to see Watson scramble under the rusty mesh of the drain that Leonard had noticed only a few minutes before.

"You stay on top and see where this thing ends," Noah ordered. "I'm going after that mutt."

He wrenched off the wire meshing and crawled into a dark wet tunnel.

Watson, paw deep in water, heard loud splashing noises behind him. He sped forward, making a hasty turn when the drainpipe suddenly swerved in another direction.

Behind him, head bent down and crawling as fast as he could, Noah failed to see the turn. Thump. The sound of his head hitting the drainpipe wall echoed along the length of the tunnel. Watson put on even more speed.

Ahead, some light filtered into the tunnel from an overhead grating and the hollow sounds of Watson's and Noah's chase caught Keith's ear. He quickly spotted the grating and bent over it. "Am I going the right way?" he called into it. "It's hard to tell."

Noah's hollow-sounding voice came back loudly.

"How do I know?" he shouted back angrily.

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