Chapter 3 - Mystery of the Old Man

Rose asked many questions and one of them was "Why is katerina sick?" Because, I answered, her boyfriend is almost dead. "Oh" she said. "Why is he faint?" she asked. He probably was drugged. What's that? she asked. It's where somebody will take sleeping drugs and make the drug into a fine powder, then put the powder into a handkerchief. Then put it up to a person's nose. "Oh" she said. When we reached the hotel, Josephine was making dinner. Katerina was sleeping soundly. Rose decided to go change her clothes. "Oh, Summers, tell me what happened. You were gone a while." Said Josephine. O, nothing really, except that the police had WONDERFUL news about the old man. First of all, his name is Silas. Next, he is a criminal. Oh, no, he might be dangerous. gasped Josephine. Then he lives California, on Walnut Ave. in Sterling. That is great news, said Katerina, who had woken up a little while ago. DINNER'S READY! called Josephine. That night, Summers could not sleep thinking about what had happened a few weeks ago. Oh dear, we have had a few crazy weeks, she thought. The next morning, Rose wasn't in her bed! Oh,no, said Katerina

When we got up that morning we went on a boat to Sterling. When we reached it we found the hospital easy. We reached the room brett was in. Katerina was talking with him right away. She said “How are you doing my love? I have been so werid about you. I hope you will keep getting better. What happened that you were almost killed?” She asked him so many qustions that you would almost die. After we were done at the hospital we went back to our hotel and look up in the phone book the old mans number. We finally found it and called it. He answered and we asked him to meet us at the cafe for luch. He agreed and we went to meet him.

He was a strange man. His name was Silas. He was a very old man about 85. He said “ I have been a farmer since I was a boy. I have heard about what happened to brett and I am very sorry I did it oh! I mean what happened to him.”

We had a good lunch. When we go back to the hotel room we all sat in the hotel room thinking about what he said. Rose did not like the feeling when she saw the old man. She knew that somthing was not right. Rose was a person who could somwhat and sometimes read peoples mind. She knew in her heart of hearts that he was lying about everything he had said and did. Except for when he said that he was the one who hurt brett.

We went that afternoon to the old shack and when we looked in the window we saw a picture of someone, that look like brett and on the photo it said “ This one is the one next to go. Hurry up lock nost monster your running out of time.” katerina realised that the man in the photo was bretts brother and started to become faint again.

We ran back quickly to the town and went to the sheriff office to ask him for help. He said that he would try,but he has never heard such thing. He thought that we were playing a game because we were kind of still kids.