Will Wilder by Raymond Arroyo

Author:Raymond Arroyo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

“There’s only one gate, and that’s the one in the middle of the fire wall. We have to walk toward it.” Simon pointed to the flame-free, wide black metal door straight ahead. “Look at the tiles on the floor. What does it say about the saints?”

“ ‘We stand on the shoulders of the saints to escape the consuming flame,’ ” Will read.

“Easy. I’ve got it. We can only step on the tiles that show the shoulders of the saints.”

Will patted Simon on the back. “Pretty good thinking. So what are you waiting for? I thought you wanted to go first.”

Simon tugged at the rope still tied round his torso. “Hold this, just in case my calculations are off.” He tossed the end of the rope to Will.

Simon checked the strap on his sports goggles and tentatively extended his foot to touch the nearest tile featuring a saint’s head and shoulders. When nothing bad happened, Simon shifted his whole weight onto the first tile. So far, so good. With all the flair of a goose waddling on hot asphalt, Simon hopscotched from saint’s shoulder to saint’s shoulder, closing in on the black metal door.

Andrew, leaning on one of the big statues along the wall, seemed perplexed. “You know, that door is kinda wide, isn’t it? What’s the book say about the gate?”

Simon had already made his way halfway across the floor. He shot a hateful look in Andrew’s direction.

“It says, ‘Enter by the narrow gate, for the wide gate brings death and pain,’ ” Will read from the green notebook. “But it’s the only gate!”

“I’m just sayin’ it looks wide to me.” Andrew shrugged his broad shoulders. “But if he wants to keep hoppin’ around, let him hop to the wide gate. What do I care?”

Simon spun to face Andrew. “Forgive us, Dr. Jones, but if we rely on your genius to crack the code of the Undercroft, we’ll be down here permanentl—” The tile beneath him suddenly broke in two, dropping Simon through the floor. Will grasped the rope just as Simon’s head slipped out of sight.

“Hold on, Simon!” Will shouted.

Andrew scrambled to get hold of the wriggling rope as well. Together, the boys hauled Simon back up through the broken tile floor.

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