Golden Box Book Publishing GBBP Magazine, June, 2017 | Page 59

seemed too small. So, after I fixed the shingles on the roof, I
looked around carefully in the room. I couldn’t find anything, but
when I knocked on the wall, it sounded different in one area about
the size of a narrow door. So I kept searching and the only
promising thing I found was a round shape, a darker spot about
the size of a dime on the wooden floor close to the wall.”
“And?” Emily urged him, her interest peaking.
“So, that small dark spot wasn’t smooth. The impression of a
flying falcon was carved into it.
I pressed it with my finger and when nothing happened, I tried
to push it and tap on it with different tools. I almost gave up when
I remembered the ring that grandma gave me.” Jayden extended
his left hand and showed it to Emily. “See? It looks like a seal and
it has the falcon on it. So, I pulled the ring off my finger and tried
it. It perfectly fit into the grooves of the dark spot on the floor and
when I turned the ring, the hidden door in the wall opened.”
“Wow! It’s so exciting! Did you tell Aunt Julia about it?”
“Nope, I searched when she went shopping.”
“Maybe she knows… So, what else is in the room?”
“There is a lot of stuff in there. Old clothes, bows and arrows,
and I saw a beautiful leather saddle and statues. Lots of statues.”
“Why didn’t you take the book to the Museum?”
“Maybe one day, but it belongs to our family and I want to
know what’s in it. You can translate the pages a whole lot faster
and more accurately than anyone employed by the Historical
Society.”
“But if you don’t submit it, you can’t even have the book
dated. How can you be sure is authentic?”
“My girlfriend works at the lab and I gave her a piece of the
leather covering and a corner of a page two days ago. She said she
could run the test and keep it a secret.”
“Can you trust her?”
“Oh, yes. We met last summer when I was working here. I
asked her to come with me to New York when I went home in the
fall, but she turned me down. She said that she couldn’t leave her
home and family. We kept in touch as friends and when I came
back and we found out that neither of us had started a relationship
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