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제목 [라이팅] A to Z mysteries 5. The Empty Envelope2019-03-16 09:10
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Dink had received 4 letters in blue envelope that from a mailman Ruby for a week.


These were addressed to D. Duncan, Green Lawn, CO 06040 but the notes were to Doris Duncan from her mother.


The return address was O. Bird, 10 Carroll St., Brooklyn, NY 11234.


He thought about another D. Duncan in Green Lawn but there was no person had the name except him and even he didn’t know anyone in Brooklyn.


On today, he also received fifth letter in the same address, however the letter something weird that it hadn’t any note inside and just had 3 stamps in a row on the envelope.


Dink and his friends assumed the Mother wrote a wrong states zip code that was CO(Colorado) not CT(Connecticut).


Dink right soon dialed information to ask for O. Bird’s number but there was no information about O. Bird in Brooklyn.


a few later, As the kids read the notes in envelope again, the phone rang.


A woman called to him and introduce herself that she was Diris Duncan, right addressee of the 5 letters.


And she asked him to keep the letters until she came to get them.


She had already come into the Shangri-la Hotel and asked him how she went to his house from the hotel.


He gave her directions to his house then hung up the phone.


Ruth thought it was weird that she came there just for some envelopes and wondered what was important about these letters.


A few minutes later, Doris arrived Dink’s house and demanded to give the letters from he mother, Bessie Duncan who had died last month.


Dink came into the kitchen to take the letters to her but these were nowhere.


Dink was embarrassed then went out and told her these letters were vanished.


She looked so angry but there was no way. So he promised her to find the letters as quick as possible he could.


First, she went away from his house, added the promise that she would come back again at 6 P.M.


After her leaving, the kids hardly found the letters what Nate who Ruth’s younger brother had hidden in the refrigerator at Ruth’s house.


As Dink wiped splotches off on the letters, he noticed the return address again.


The name of addressee O. Bird and Bessie Duncan was not matched, and even there was a big gap for 3 weeks between the day her mother died and Dink’s received the letters.


Dink thought it was too weird and doubted the Doris had hidden something to them.


Just that time, Josh carefully smeared the milk on the letters to read some invisible words.


But anything appeared on it so Ruth dried it quickly.


A few minutes later, Ruth found some pinholes in the paper that went right through the letters H, D, J, O, F and E.


They tried to figure out what the hidden means these letters.


Josh assumed that letters did stand for a words like the word, SCUBA.


So they made a sentence ‘Jenny Hid Den On Fifth Envelope’!


But there was no note in the fifth envelope, so they noticed the 3 sunflower stamps.


Ruth found out something hidden in the big stamps and peeled the stamps away from the envelope, using the moisture of boiled water.


Soon they saw a tiny hidden stamp that was a picture of an upside down airplane.


It looked old-fashioned.


Ruth thought the stamp might be worth keeping.


Then they went to the library and looked at the book about stamp.


Mrs. Mackleroy helped them to find the book and they saw the same stamp picture in the “plane” part.


When they read the caption “CURTIS JEENY SINGLE-ENGINE AIRPLANE ”under the picture, they were so surprised.


An upside down airplane stamp was worth fifty thousand dollars!


Only then they understood her why she came to the CO for get the letters, at the same time, they wondered why her mother had hidden it.


Dink assumed that the stamp might be stolen by someone who already knew about that worth.


He remembered the fact that the letter came from New York So they asked Mrs. Mackleroy for gethering last few weeks “New York Times” and started found the robbery article.


After for half an hour, they found Miss Clementine Painter’s article.


It said she who found a rare stamp what was worth $50,000 while she cleaned the vacuum cleaner, the stamp was stolen from her room a few days later.


The kids were sure the stamp was stolen by O. Bird, but there wasn’t much time left, before she came back Dink’s house at 6 P.M.


Dink wanted to report to the police, they hadn’t enough evidence to support her guilty.


So they made a plan to get the clues that proved it.


First, So that they gave the letter in clues to Officer Fallon, went back to the Dink’s house.


As they came out the library Josh saw a weird car that looked the same he had ever seen at Dink’s house before.


When they reached Miss Alubicky house where a few house away from Dink’s house, the same car already had come in front of the house so they crawled Alubicky’s lawn.


At that time the dog was barking at them then the man in green suits chased after them quickly.


They started running to the Josh’s barn and climbed up into the loft.


The man looked around the barn and ran out there.


And then Ruth suggested an idea to boys, they all agreeed to her opinion.


They went up to the Josh’s house and Ruth called to the hotel where Doris had stayed.


And told her that she had a missing stamp and knew that worth so she could exchange it for $500.


At noon the next day, Ruth sat on the chair in the library where was nearly empty.


A few minutes later, Doris and a man in green suits came into the library and walked toward her.


Ruth asked her who he was, Doris introduced the man’s name was Otto Bird and her associate.


After then they exchanged each others, Ruth exclaimed aloud “Ok. Officer Fallon!”


Right soon He appeared in the corner, arrested them for theft and mail fraud and snapped handcuffs on Two’s wrists.


Doris felt angry to Ruth that she tricked her, and that time the old woman who reading the paper suddenly stood up and screamed that “you tricked me!”


When Otto Bird recognized her and tried to excuse, but anyone in there didn’t want to hear his lame words.


Done it all.


Miss Clementine Painter told the kids how she was stolen the stamp.


When her mother died recently, she cleaned mother’s vacuum cleaner and found the stamp.


She didn’t know exactly about that and then dialed a stamp organization in the phone book but it just all fake.


Otto Bird was so polite so she believed him and told where she hid it.


After that the stamp was stolen by someone.


And O. Bird was used to the word “mother” that’s why anyone opened the envelopes, they had to look innocent.


But, unfortunately, he wrote a wrong address not Connecticut but Colorado due to his broke glasses.


After every stories ended, they said good-bye and Miss Clementine Painter back to the bus station with her stamp.


The kids went to their house to clean their mother’s vacuum cleaner.






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