They went up into the attic of the house, Karen knew what they needed to find.
Construction plans
In the attic of the house, there were plenty of boxes that were filled with all types of things that they had never seen before or hardly ever used. It was a storage space for them, but they hardly ever went up there to get anything. This time though, they had a clear purpose.
Karen and Sue went upstairs and got a box out from the back of the attic. Sue didn’t know what it was at first, but it was actually old construction plans for the house. This home was very old before they bought it and there were plenty of things they didn’t know about the plans.
Hidden room?
When they opened up the construction plans, they found Peter’s signature written on the top of one of the pages. Then they knew that they were on the right path to getting to the next clue. He was with them every step of the way, but what was he trying to show them?
Karen and Sue both looked at the plans for a solid hour or so. They didn’t know what to search for. Then finally, Sue burst out with a surprised yell. She found out that one of the rooms in the plan didn’t match the room in the house. In fact, that meant there was a hidden room behind a wall.
Fake wall
Karen and Sue looked at each other once again in shock, neither of them knew about this hidden wall, but now they were going to get to the bottom of this one way or another. They went to the room that the hidden room was located in. They looked for the wall.
They found the wall and then tapped it, they could hear a hollow sound coming from the other side. In all the years that they had lived in this house, they never knew about this hidden room, Karen guessed that Peter was keeping it as a fun surprise for them to find.
Inside
They searched the wall for anything that would possibly open up the other side. But the wall had been sealed shut, so they were really going to have a tough time opening it. But then Sue noticed something, there was a dresser that was leaning up against the wall and something was behind it.
It was an old dresser that had been there when they moved in and they had never moved it. Maybe behind that was something that would lead them to the next clue? Karen helped Sue push the dresser aside, then they saw the outline of a doorknob. It was the perfect fit.
Mysterious door
Together, Karen helped Sue get the doorknob connected to the hole in the wall that they found behind the dresser. When they turned the knob, they could see that some of the wallpaper was peeling off. Karen didn’t mind though, she wanted to see this other room out of pure curiosity now.
They opened up the hidden door and ripped some of the wallpaper off the wall. A bunch of dust hit them both in the face and they coughed together. Then they covered their mouths and looked inside the very small room. What was inside there and would it be the next clue?
Second clue
The room was small, dark and empty. But in the middle of the floor, there was another small box. This had to be something for Sue, why else would it be here? Sue grabbed it and opened it right away as Karen looked around the small room. She thought it would make a nice closet.
Sue opened up the box and grabbed a little hand-sized shovel. She looked at her mom and she had no idea what that was for. Could it have been for digging something up? If so, then what part of the house were they supposed to dig up now? There was only one place.
Backyard
Karen looked at the map and then tried to figure out what the next clue was all about. Sue looked at the shovel and then took the map to take a peek at what was written. It was another riddle that she needed to figure out. It mentioned something about dirt and Earth.
Sue ran outside to the backyard, this had to be the place that her father was talking about. But where in the backyard did he bury something? Then she saw a drawing of a flower and knew that he was talking about the small garden at the back of the yard.
Digging
Sue used the small shovel to dig around the small garden. She didn’t want to ruin any of the flowers, so she followed the description of one of the flowers that was illustrated on the map. She figured that underneath that flower must be the thing she was looking for without a doubt.
She dug away and surely enough, her tiny shovel hit something. She used her hands to get the object out of the dirt. It was another small box that looked like all of the others. She knew that this had to be it. She had found the next clue, she was so close to the end now.
A key!
Sue opened up the box and looked inside. Then she grabbed a key. She didn’t know what this was about, but then she looked at the map for further instructions.
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