Cora Flash And the Treasure of Beggar's Bluff
“Burton, the librarian, was not at the front desk when I went in. This disappointed me, as I found him very helpful and would no doubt have looked up the name of the person who had dropped their card. The bigger disappointment was that in his place stood Marty Bass. Marty Bass happened to be the seventeen-year-old brother of Alex Bass, my classmate. Marty worked part-time in the library, but did not actually seem to do much work."Hi, Marty," I said. "Where's Mr. Burton?""Oh, hey Cora," he said, ...sounding half-asleep. "He's at lunch right now. He should be back in, like, ten or fifteen minutes.""Maybe you can help me," I said, taking out the card from my pocket. "I found this and I wanted to return it to its owner. Can you tell me who it belongs to?"He looked at the card and narrowed his eyes. "You found this?" he said."Yes.""Where?"I began to fear Marty suspected something about the card, so I decided to lie in order to keep him from asking more questions. "I found it in the street.""Oh," he replied.MoreLess
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