The Deadliest Haunted Castle by V Bertolaccini Page A

and stood up
and ignored it.
    Mitchell and he moved around looking
baffled, as well as tired, and examined the skeleton again.
    “ What do you think they buried this
here for? ” Mitchell asked, probing, curious and looking for
more.
    Bryson rested and never replied and as he
did his sight fell on the skeleton, and he wondered if he should
react to having the privilege of encountering a great ancestor, and
he saw that it had the same height as he had.
    Traces on the skull showed that he had had
similar looks too!
    Mitchell grew annoyed and poked it, and it
moved and shifted position and he saw something sparkle as it did,
and Bryson stuck down his hand at where it was in a pile of dust in
the center of the skeleton and he probed through its bones and felt
an object, and he pulled it out.
    “ What do you think? ” Mitchell asked, trying to
see what was there.
    He cleaned the dirt, which was encrusting
most of it, and found that it was a large ring, and he started
polishing it with a cotton handkerchief that he had in his pocket
and revealed an expensive ancient large diamond gold ring, and he
examined the diamond realizing that it had been it that had
sparkled.
    The large size of it was peculiar and he had
not seen any normal ring that size before.
    “ Can I see it? ” an archeologist asked,
which one of Mitchell ’ s men had brought over, and he swiftly
shifted in beside him, and put out his hand. “ I ’ ve seen something like that before
... ”
    Bryson handed it over seeing that he knew
something, and the archeologist twisted and unscrewed the area that
held the diamond, and removed it from the ring.
    “ People concealed small objects in
them, ” the
archeologist stated. “ Just below the jewel! ”
    His fingers probed in it and he removed a
small piece of paper!
     

 
     
     
     
     

Chapter 20
     
    The Secret Map
     
    He unfolded and stretched it out, perhaps
done for the first time in hundreds of years, and someone shone a
light over it and its details became clearer and some of the men
grouped around him, and they examined it.
    “ It ’s an old drawing of this castle, ” Mitchell replied first, seeing something
that confirmed his beliefs.
    But Bryson realized that it was more than
that and that it was an ancient plan of it from a side view,
showing where something was, and he knew it because it was so
important that the person had it hidden in the ring, and he had
seen something similar in the other castle. It had far more detail,
and more than what it had looked like when first seen, and it was
an accurate map of the interior.
    Bryson ’ s thoughts went wild and he wondered
what they had been up to! The other castle was just a place
haunted, but this place in places never made sense anywhere! What
did they find? What were they doing here? And why were there so
many secrets involved?
    Mitchell took
it, and held it over his light, and he and Bryson considered the
faint lines for a moment. He tried to realize what he had been
like. What had he actually been like? And what had he thought of
the castle?
    “ Could
be anything to do with the treasure?” one of the men finally asked,
desperate for clues.
    They examined it for clues to its identity,
and why it was there!
    It could be
more valuable as assumed but on the other hand it could be
anything! They studied it from different angles, until they started
losing interest.
    “ That
looks like a faded cross marking something?” the man that had asked
if it could be anything to do with the treasure asked, pointing at
a very faint cross that he had found.
    Bryson was
surprised that he had not seen it, and that the others never seemed
to have noticed it.
    “ Where
do you think that is?” the man finally muttered, like he knew where
it was and wanted to confirm it.
    “ It’s on
the top floor and surely not far from here!” Mitchell finally
answered, seeing they were not coming out with anything. “So let’s
go and have a check ...”
    After a few