Mystery in the Computer Game by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Author:Gertrude Chandler Warner [Warner, Gertrude Chandler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-2135-8
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2011-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Wrong Information

Watch began sniffing as soon as the Aldens and Soo Lee arrived at QuestMaster. A security guard recognized them from their earlier visit and let them in. Watch could tell right away that dogs were welcome there.

Tracker came out from hiding under C.D.’s computer desk.

“Hi, Tracker,” Jessie said. “Meet Watch. Watch, meet Tracker.” She turned to the other children. “Well, the dogs are here, but where are the people?”

The design studio was deserted. Not even C.D. seemed to be around. Tracker and Watch soon began chasing each other around the empty office.

“This place is going to the dogs,” Henry joked. He checked his watch. “I wonder if we got the time wrong.”

“Hello! Hello!” Jessie shouted, but no one answered back.

Where was everyone? Finally the children heard footsteps.

“Hey, Aldens,” C.D. said when he came into the studio. “What brings you here?”

The children didn’t speak at first. They just stared at one another in confusion.

“Isn’t there a meeting at one o’clock?” Henry asked. “We got an e-mail this morning saying to come here. Are you EyeSpy? I thought maybe you were using a funny screen name.”

C.D. laughed. “It’s not me. I have a feeling someone was playing a prank on you. Sorry about that. Sometimes people on my staff get bored and start sending funny e-mails. There’s no meeting scheduled.”

Jessie wondered about this. “But the message wasn’t funny. It said to come to a meeting today. It also said not to use the network and that somebody would come to fix it.”

C.D. looked confused now. “We haven’t had any network problem that I know of. We’re still looking for bugs in Ringmaster II. And I’ve been having problems with that new feature for Ringmaster III that Jane created. Now she’s telling me she can’t get it to work anymore. She went off to Hampstead this morning for a special computer chip she heard about that might get her idea working again.”

“Does it have anything to do with Ringmaster II?” Benny asked. “There’s a two-headed character named Nadje.”

“Nadje?” C.D. asked. “Are you sure of the name? I’ve never heard of any two-headed character. Sounds interesting. When did you discover this character?”

“This morning,” Henry said. “That’s the weird thing. When we played the Ringmaster II software here the other day and then at home, we didn’t see any Nadje character.”

“Or any sign on the castle that said ‘The Brass Horn,’ either,” Violet added. “That’s the same name as the restaurant in Greenfield where we just saw—”

Jessie gently poked Violet. She didn’t feel right about telling C.D. that they had spied Jane Driver in the restaurant when C.D. thought she was in Hampstead.

C.D. booted up the nearest computer, which happened to be Ned’s. “Okay, Aldens, see if you can bring up this Nadje character somewhere in this game.”

Henry and Jessie tried to remember what keys they had hit when they discovered Nadje. But every time they got to the onscreen castle, only the evil Wumps appeared.

“Are you sure you’re doing it right?” C.D. asked.

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