The Treasure by E.A. House

Author:E.A. House
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2018-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

THAT THEY MANAGED FOUR AND A HALF HOURS without Professor Griffin turning up was something of a miracle, all things considered. As Carrie pointed out later, with no small amount of suppressed fury, he had the same coordinates they did. All he actually needed to do was play around with the numbers for a while, and if you didn’t pretend that they were some sort of clever cypher Carrie had put together—not an impossible theory, but one that assumed Carrie liked cyphers even more than Chris did—then you had only a limited number of ways to rearrange those numbers. Sooner or later the professor was bound to stumble across the right combination, if only by process of elimination, and so sooner or later he was going to find the San Telmo. The idea had really only been to get there before him.

It was an idea that had neglected one very important factor: that if they got to the San Telmo before Professor Griffin did, that did not mean they would leave the site of the San Telmo before Professor Griffin arrived. Which he did, wearing a crazy expression. And holding a gun.

“So!” he said, halfway through the crevice and already aiming a gun at Chris.

Chris was terrified, but underneath the terror a little voice was wailing, Oh no, not again! And another little voice was demanding to know why he was the one they always threatened to shoot. Several very rude words occurred to Chris and he swallowed them with difficulty. But Professor Griffin was dangerous and it wouldn’t do to say anything to him that would antagonize him, even though he was perfectly capable of antagonizing himself over nothing.

“I see you’ve found my treasure,” Professor Griffin said. He seemed calm, but his eyes were flicking from Chris to Carrie to Maddison to Dr. McRae to the ship, and although he’d started with his aim on Chris, his gun was now drifting through the air like he couldn’t settle on a person to threaten. “How astute of you, I was afraid you wouldn’t figure it out. I almost gave up hope when the coordinates were wrong.”

“They weren’t wrong,” Chris said. The gun swung back to him and he winced. Nice going, Chris, draw attention to yourself. “They were just reversed.”

“Shut up, Chris,” Carrie hissed.

“No, no, Chris is right,” Professor Griffin said. “That was rude of me. I should have tried looking at the numbers from a different angle before I discounted them as incorrect, I was just so eager . . . ” He took a step closer. “I’ve waited so long to be the one to find this ship . . . ”

“Well, I’m sorry to have to tell you this, Willis,” Dr. McRae said, with enough venom in his voice that Professor Griffin actually took a step backwards in alarm, “but you aren’t the one who found this ship.” In two long strides he was standing between Professor Griffin and the San Telmo, his expression hurt and furious. “Elsie is the one who found this ship.

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