All-American Adventure by James Patterson & Juliana Neufeld

Author:James Patterson & Juliana Neufeld
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 33

“Where you folks from?” asked the gangly guy behind the cash register as he rang up our ice cream cones.

(I got soft serve vanilla dipped in chocolate. Delish.)

“Oh, all over,” replied Uncle Richie, very grandly. “For you see, good sir, we are treasure hunters!”

“Is that so?”

“Indeed, it is.”

“Find anything interesting lately?”

“Uh, yeah,” said Tommy. “You ever heard of the Lost Ship of the Desert?”

“There was a ship?” said the cashier. “In the desert?”

“It was lost,” said Beck.

“But then,” said Tommy, “we found, like, this treasure map, and—boom!—there it was, buried in the sand.”

“You folks down here looking for Mosby’s treasure?”

“Maybe,” said Beck. “We usually don’t talk about our quests until they’re complete.”

“Oh, dear,” said Uncle Richie. “My great-niece is correct. Good sir? Kindly disregard anything I said about treasure or the hunting of it.”

“No problem. But, if you folks are fans of the Mosby legends, check out our walls. We’ve got all sorts of memorabilia hanging on them. Including a few pages from Colonel Mosby’s private journal.”

“Bully!” said Uncle Richie.

“Do you also have a basement?” I asked.

“No,” said the cashier. “And the next time you see Ms. Rhodes over at the library, kindly ask her to stop telling people that we do! Next!”

We moved into the dining room so the cashier could ring up other customers.

“Here is his handwritten journal,” said Storm, pointing to a frame displaying two scraps of antique parchment.

“Cool,” I said. “If only he’d written down instructions about where he hid his loot.”

Storm leaned in and peered at the two pages. One was completely covered in inky scribblings. The other page was half empty.

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