Operation GJ exchange began as soon as Jessie, Lily and Annie entered the shop. Trying to keep Annie's anger from erupting, she quickly started looking around the shop. "What are you ladies doing in an antique shop at this hour?" asked the shop keeper. "We're checking for haunted things" replied Jessie and the shop keeper said no more.
Ginerva entered the shop. She looked as tired as Noah saw her before. She went to a corner filled with glass ornaments. A few minutes later, Josh came into the shop and went to the glass ornament area. An entire conspiracy was happening inside the Antique shop and the shop keeper was oblivious to it all. "Well?" demanded Josh in a low voice. Ginerva gave him a glare, shoved a piece of paper into his hand and left without another glance.
Lily stared at the magnifying glass really hard as Josh opened the scrap of paper. Although the magnified letters would have made no sense, Lily deciphered it quickly.
I know what you want. No. it won't happen. You cannot leave until you finish what you started
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"Finish what he started?" asked Annie puzzled. They were back at Annie's house and Lily had just informed them what they saw. "Josh left a note in the book for Ginerva to get since she's the secretary. Maybe he's the spy?" asked Jessie. "Let's hope the others have better luck" Lily answered gloomily. Jessie suddenly scoffed.
"These people really don't care about the environment! Why paper? Ever heard of an email?"
Meanwhile Daniel, Noah and Janet were at the library. Daniel was doing some sweet talk with the security lady while the other two snuck in. "We are breaking so many privacy laws" Noah said as Janet typed on the computer. "You spied on Ginerva and Josh, just keep telling yourself that this can help our mystery" she said while checked through the footage until she gasped. She pressed the replay button. Josh was putting the scrap of paper in the book and dog eared the page. A few moments later, Janet looked at the book. She quickly put the book aside and went out of the camera's view. Mayor Eliza Mills came into the view.
"Mom?" asked Janet, confused. Eliza looked around and quickly took the note outside the book. She had a notebook and quickly wrote something down and hid the paper in the cover. She left as soon as Mrs. Turninghum grabbed the book and took out her phone. "Josh put the note but Ginerva didn't take it. The mayor took out the letter and wrote something else. Mrs. Turninghum took the book. Does your mom know about what we're doing? Or have they figured it out?" Noah asked, confused by the turn of events. Janet zoomed in on the notebook. It was black with bold gold lettering.
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