The Yggyssey by Daniel Pinkwater

Author:Daniel Pinkwater
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-04-17T00:04:48.844000+00:00

CHAPTER 36

Wiener Whistles

We decided to spread out through the hotel and watch for Chase. To signal one another, we had Oscar Mayer Wiener Whistles. Seamus Finn had left his in his room at the military school, but I had two, so loaned him one of mine. These are whistles you get for free when the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile comes around. It is a car shaped like a hot dog, and there is a little person dressed as a chef who hands out the Wiener Whistles. They are shaped like a hot dog too, and make a nice hollow hooting kind of sound. The idea was that if any of us saw Chase, we would toot our Wiener Whistle, and the other two would head for the sound.

"Won't that alert Chase that she is being watched?" Seamus Finn asked.

"If I understood what she said to me, she expects to be watched. She wants to tell me where the secret entrance to the secret world is, but she can't come right out and just say it. Some kind of ghostly rule, I guess. So I am betting she will ignore the whistle and just go about her business. Toot softly, and every few seconds, so the others can find you."

We spread out. Neddie took the upper floors, Seamus took the middle ones, and I took the lower stories of the hotel, the lobby, and the basement. It wasn't long before I heard a faint tooting coming from above. I raced up the stairs. The tooting was getting clearer. I passed the middle floors, with no sign of Seamus Finn, and when I reached the second-to-the-top-floor hallway, both boys were there.

"Where is she?" I asked.

"She was here a minute ago. Now she's disappeared again."

"Spread out again."

We spread out. It would have been much better if we had walkie-talkies or some kind of two-way radios for this. Then I heard tooting from above—it was Seamus this time. I raced up and Neddie raced down. Again, Chase had disappeared by the time we assembled.

There were a few more false alarms, and sightings of Chase scurrying through the corridors only to vanish before we could all converge.

"Chase covers a lot of territory in the course of a day," Seamus Finn said.

"She's a busy bunny," I said.

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