Mayflower Treasure Hunt by Ron Roy

Author:Ron Roy [Roy, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307496737
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2007-08-28T07:00:00+00:00

“The Mayflower is closed.”

Dink turned and peered back the way they’d come. In his mind, he saw the old woman following their footprints. Would the snow cover them? Would she be fooled by their attempt to wipe their tracks away?

“Guys, I might have messed up,” Dink admitted. “If we’d stayed at the hotel, that woman couldn’t have done anything to us. Not with the clerk there. We could’ve just run up to our rooms.”

“It’s too late to worry about that now,” Ruth Rose said. “Besides, it was my idea to come to the Mayflower. I didn’t know it would be closed.” She peered through the locked gate. “Let’s climb over the fence. If we can hide on the Mayflower, she’ll never find us.”

“She’s right,” Josh said. He put his arm around Dink’s shoulder. “We can pretend we’re the Pilgrims during their first snowstorm in America!”

Ruth Rose began climbing. The boys found toeholds and followed her.

Once they were inside the fence, they ran aboard the Mayflower II. The ship looked ghostly under a covering of snow. The wind blew snow into their faces and froze their eyelashes.

“We have to get out of this snow,” Josh said. He blew into his hands.

“Okay, let’s go downstairs,” Dink suggested. He led them past the dark galley. Now that they were out of the wind and snow, they felt warmer.

They climbed down the stairs to the deck where the Pilgrims had lived and slept. It was completely dark, only the moon’s dim glow making its way into the space. Dink stopped over the grate that led down to the hold.

“This is creepy,” Josh whispered. His voice shook, either from cold or fear.

Dink peered down through the grate into the darkness. “It’ll be warmer down there,” he said, pointing.

Suddenly they heard a thump on the deck above them. They jumped, bumping into each other. Josh fell over a pile of something and sprawled onto the floor.

“It’s her! Help me move the grate!” Dink whispered.

The three kids tugged the wooden grate about fifteen inches. “A few more inches and we can fit!” Dink said.

“How do we get down there?” Ruth Rose asked. “It’s deep!”

“There are some mattresses right below us,” Dink said. “I remember them!”

“Are you sure?” Josh asked.

“No,” Dink said.

And he jumped.

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