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good!”
    Merton nodded.
“Okay, we’ll do that!”
    “ Your
uncle must have been raving mad putting you in that
bed!”
    “ So what
else did you discover?”
    “ We
found some incredible frequencies from the wall.”
    “ There
must be a reason why that is mainly at the wall, and the other
equipment is detecting nothing !”
    “ And why
is it so loud?” Merton queried. “It produces an effect that it’s
occurring all about the place, from other locations – as well as it
appearing at other locations! – which we detected.”
    “ Can I
hear your best recordings?” Bryson asked, as he glimpsed Merton
playing with a machine.
    Mechanically,
Merton activated it, and a few crackles emerged, and chanting
loudly came from its speakers.
    “ That is
just before it occurred,” Merton called out, with his ear at
it.
    With utter
astonishment, Bryson staggered back, absolutely spellbound,
marginally gaining control of his features, while intensely
listening to a creature’s roar, as though it were happening in
front of him.
    The sounds and
the time that it had occurred were so precise that he knew that it
could not have been from anything else except the thing that had
been in his dream, and at the end of his bed.

Chapter 8
     
    The Castle Library
     
    Most of his
relatives were sitting in the dining room, chatting excitedly.
    The hunt for
the money was an exciting game, and he was sure that they were
mainly overconfident. But why worry about it! They would either
find it or they would not. They had nothing to lose.
    Why not have a
good time? Who knows! They might get something else of great value
in the place. There were many generations of eccentric owners of
the castle. Things in it had been there for an immense amount of
time. Perhaps some valuable antique existed somewhere!
    He lifted his
soupspoon, which was far too flat, and managed to consume the small
amount of soup on it. He heard the servants giggling, in another
room.
    He jerked, as
two loud crackles came off the logs burning furiously in the
fireplace, behind him. The heat from it made his back sweat.
    “ Well,
how are your two friends doing ?”
Robert moaned, moving into a vacant seat.
    “ What
...?”
    Bryson
anxiously took a sip of soup, and watched his chunky face smiling
at him at the corner of his eye. For a moment, he wondered if he
had found the answer to the clue, or something.
    “ They
made some incredible recordings!”
    Robert
hesitated, and stopped smiling.
    Bryson felt
the warm air in the surrounding room, and he relaxed against the
back of the seat. The corridor and rooms were cold, and he felt the
coldness coming from there, through the door.
    He lifted his
wine glass, and tasted the sweet white German wine.
    “ That’s
odd! Did they not find anything else with all that equipment that
arrived here?”
    “ They’ve
not finished.”
    He lifted his
arm, and allowed it to fall to his side.
    Robert
stretched his arms. “It’s time to start work! I was thinking of
bringing in some local workmen ...”
    “ That
could be a mistake! Even though it seems a good idea. I think we’ll
have to do more thinking – instead of taking up ever floorboard in
the castle.”
    “ Have
you any ideas about the answer to that clue? None of us have come
close to finding anything.”
    “ It’s
too soon! It’s too vague! But there must be an answer, and I shall
continue ...”
    Robert stood
up, and followed some of the others out of the door.
    Bryson
realized that the others were not properly searching the entire
castle. They had agreed to concentrate in the right places!
    Therefore, it
would be a good idea for him to spend the morning wandering about
the rooms, looking for anything. Perhaps it would help solve the
clue.
    He always
wanted to search this castle. He had been unable to do it the last
time that he was at it as the servants had kept him in the lounge,
and had persuaded him not to go anywhere else.
    He had the
freedom to roam the castle, and he