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Bryson answered, seeking a change of scenery, and to
go outside. “We can have a good look at the castle. There may be
something outside that will help us answer that clue.”
    “ Perhaps
it’s in something on the outside of it!” James revealed.
    Robert
shrugged. Bryson could tell that Robert was beginning to lose faith
in their plans.
    He wondered if
Sir Richard would have actually hid it on the outside. However, he
could not imagine him climbing out to hide it, or putting it at the
ground level. Outer parts of the structure were also crumbling
away.
    “ Have
you completed searching here?” he asked.
    “ We’ve
searched most of it,” James replied. “We’re searching where we
believe it could be.”
    James looked
about him. “Why did such a rich guy not have anything of value
about him?”
    “ He
explained that in ‘his video’!” Robert moaned.
    “ Even
with his views, he should have had things: such as expensive
jewellery.”
    “ Perhaps
someone took everything
out of his room!”

Chapter 9
     
    The Map
     
    “Here ’s an interesting
one! ” James
loudly announced – standing up, and sitting back down – holding a
tattered book by his fingers, allowing them to view it.
    “ It ’s about castles! ” Robert remarked excitedly, holding
out his hand. “ This castle may be in it! ”
    Robert took it, and laid it down.
    But it was obvious that there was nothing to
see, and he just flicked through the pages.
    “ Well, it ’s a start! There may be some useful
books. ”
    Suddenly Bryson saw a page from it
lying on the floor, under the table – which clearly had fallen from
it.
    He picked it up, and unfolded it on the
table in front of them.
    “ Well, what ’s this? ” James asked, frustrated.
    “ It ’s an old drawing of this castle, ” Robert replied.
    But Bryson realized that it was more
than a drawing – it was an ancient plan. It had far more detail, and it was a
map of the interior – drawn by someone. (Something a tourist might
use!)
    After a few minutes, Robert lost
interest.
    “ Are we going
outside? ” he announced, with a little hesitation. “ What do you
think? ”
    “ That ’s an idea, ” Bryson answered, wondering if Sir
Richard would really have hidden it on the outside.
    “ Good.
We’ll go out later then!”

Chapter 10
     
    Castle of
Horrors
     
    A bitter breeze
blew across Bryson’s cheek, through a crack in the window frame.
His fingers touched the cold surface of the glass, and he brushed
his hand across it, cleaning it.
    He left his
hand on it, heating the frost on the other side, allowing it to
melt enough for him to see out of it. He soon confirmed that it was
not bright outside.
    The brightness
of the room light made him turn, to see Mortimer, with his hand at
the switch. Bryson immediately went over to admire a Victorian
painting on a wall, with his ears sensitive to any sounds.
    The painting
was like a view into the past, holding hidden clues to what he had
experienced there, and he searched it trying to find clues. There
had to be something that would slightly suggest something that
might answer the mysteries of the castle.
    He was soon
racking his brain again, trying to scientifically determine what
the sounds had been. He could tell that Merton and Mortimer had
checked the rooms along the corridor from that room. The castle’s
vastness and that the scientists could encounter something
unprepared seemed to stop them exploring it further.
    Mortimer
slightly turned his head from the window.
    He had
expected some of the others to take some interest and check the
scientists and equipment, and give their opinions of what they
thought of it. But they insisted in holding to their rule of
avoiding there. They only marched past the rooms, taking small
glances.
    The two
psychic investigators had offered no explanations, keeping their
views to themselves, and were probably keeping their minds open
until they had properly investigated the rooms. With the amount