The Vandemark Mummy
““We should have taken our bikes,” Phineas muttered.
“We can’t—carry her—with bikes,” Althea gasped. “Can’t you—slow—?”
Phineas turned into the park entrance. He had a little sweat worked up, but he could still have been running. “Wait,” Althea gasped from behind him. He turned and waited for her to catch up. “Not—a jock—you know.”
Phineas didn’t waste his breath on that put-down. What if some kids found the mummy, and messed around with it? Before they got there. If it was the mummy.
They went ...up the low ridge that overlooked the courts. A few games were in progress, and as many courts were unoccupied. Sunlight poured over everything. Phineas, his feet hurrying down the hill, figured that probably the mummy had been left in the trees and bushes behind the courts.
They saw it almost immediately, a lumpy shape half tucked under a bush. It looked like somebody’s garbage. That was because it was in fact concealed in two black trash bags, one pulled up over and one pulled down over, with the plastic drawstring tied in the middle.MoreLess
“We can’t—carry her—with bikes,” Althea gasped. “Can’t you—slow—?”
Phineas turned into the park entrance. He had a little sweat worked up, but he could still have been running. “Wait,” Althea gasped from behind him. He turned and waited for her to catch up. “Not—a jock—you know.”
Phineas didn’t waste his breath on that put-down. What if some kids found the mummy, and messed around with it? Before they got there. If it was the mummy.
They went ...up the low ridge that overlooked the courts. A few games were in progress, and as many courts were unoccupied. Sunlight poured over everything. Phineas, his feet hurrying down the hill, figured that probably the mummy had been left in the trees and bushes behind the courts.
They saw it almost immediately, a lumpy shape half tucked under a bush. It looked like somebody’s garbage. That was because it was in fact concealed in two black trash bags, one pulled up over and one pulled down over, with the plastic drawstring tied in the middle.MoreLess
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