Treasure in the Woods by E.A. House

Author:E.A. House
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2018-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

The answer, it turned out, was not very. It was a completely ordinary, run-of-the-mill sort of conspiracy, and nothing at all like a lost treasure ship and a murdered aunt. Honestly, it was almost cute. Maddison was so shocked that she dropped her backpack on Chris’s foot so that his explanation of what he meant was delayed while he hopped around in pain for a while.

“What did you put in here? Rocks?” Chris gasped.

“No,” Maddison said. “Just clothes. And maps. And some snacks, and a really nice stick I think I could do some damage with.” It was the stick that had been digging into her hip for half the night, actually. Maddison had found it when she and Carrie had taken down the tent so the film crew didn’t have to, which they’d done after checking all their things for any object that didn’t belong to them before packing everything up.

They’d gotten the sleeping bags together and it had occurred to Carrie that polite guests left no sign that they were there and she’d insisted on taking the tent down. It had almost come down on top of Maddison’s head—the thing was unwieldy once you started unpegging it. She was pretty sure Carrie had polite guest rules mixed up with polite camping rules. Also they were just a little bored and full of nervous energy. They’d even gone ahead and packed up all Chris’s things since he’d still been asking the camera operators nosey questions.

“Did you grab me a stick?” Chris asked. When he had finally turned up, Carrie and Maddison had been sitting on the ground playing a clapping game in the spot where the tent used to stand and feeling a little too discreetly tucked away. The tiny clearing was in the shape of a figure eight, with one loop far smaller than the other, and in the smaller loop there was just enough room for one extra tent and a picnic table, covered in bits of old brick for reasons Redd had not known when he’d given them the tour.

It was separate without being out of hearing distance of the rest of the camp, and Maddison was pretty sure they’d been put up there because of a combination of politeness and them being much younger than most of the crew. Unfortunately, there was a pine tree half-blocking sightlines to the rest of the camp and it was going to be hard to prove that they’d been in their tent the whole time doing nothing but sleeping. And the cameras were just through the bushes at the other end of the bottleneck, so they were still close enough to fall under suspicion.

“No, but I’m sure you can find one of your own,” Maddison said.

“After you tell us that you didn’t traumatize the camera operators too badly,” Carrie added.

Chris agreeably sat down across from her, on a tree stump marking the boundary between the woods and the clearing, and started poking through the available sticks. “The funny thing is,” he said, “if we did destroy the cameras we’d have been doing them a favor.

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