Five have a mistery to solve by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novela, Aventuras, Infantil, Juvenil
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 1961-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

A great surprise — and a shock for george

As soon as Dick shouted §STOP† Julian and George hung on to the rope to stop it going down any further. Dick was swinging just opposite the strange door. He began to feel round it, and to jiggle it. It had no lock, apparently, but there was a bolt on his side. He tried to push back the bolt — and suddenly it came away from the door, and dropped down into the well. It had rusted so much that it could not even hold to the door, once it was handled!

The door felt loose, now the bolt was gone. Dick ran his hands round it, trying to loosen it further, and banged it with his fist. Rust fell off it, and Dick's hands were soon brown with the old old rust.

He saw a little knob at the top of the door and gave it a tug. Ah — the door felt looser now. He ran his knife all round the edges, scraping away all the rust he could find. Then he managed to get his strongest knife-blade in between the door-edge and the well-wall, and used it as a lever to force the door open.

It opened slowly and painfully, with creaks and groans. It was about eighteen inches high and not quite so much wide. Dick pulled it back with difficulty and then peered through the hole.

He could see nothing at all but black darkness — how very disappointing! He fumbled in his pocket to see if he had a torch. Yes — good! He shone it through the little door, his hand trembling with excitement. What would he see?

His torch was small and not very powerful. The light fell first of all on a face with gleaming eyes, and Dick had such a shock that he almost fell down the well. The eyes seemed to glare up at him in a very threatening manner! He switched his torch to the right — and yet another face gleamed up at him. “A queer face,” thought Dick. “Yellow as can be! YELLOW! YELLOW! I believe that face is made of gold!”

His hand was trembling even more, he shone his torch here and there through the opening, catching first one yellow face in its light, and then another. The faces had yellow bodies too, and their eyes glinted very queerly.

“I believe — yes, I really do believe — that I've found the hiding-place of the golden statues!” thought Dick. “And those gleaming eyes must be precious jewels. My word, I did have a shock when I saw them all looking at me! Whatever is this place they're in?”

“DICK! What can you see? Do tell us!” yelled Julian, and poor Dick almost fell off the rope when the shouts echoed round him. “Pull me up!” he shouted. “It's too extraordinary for words. Pull me up and I'll tell you!”

And before a minute had passed, he was standing by the others, his eyes gleaming almost as brightly as the eyes of the golden statues, his words tumbling over one another.

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