chapter 3- The Key

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After a week of living in the house and repairing the outside, he settled in.  One day as Jeff worked on a leak in the roof, he slipped and fell, landing on his ankle.  Slowly, Jeff limped off to bed.  The next morning as he woke up, he tried to stand, but found himself falling seconds later.  He picked himself back up using one of the end-posts for the bed.  Just then, a key fell onto the floor and slipped through a crack. It fell to the cellar below. 

Jeff ran as fast as he could despite his ankle.  He searched through the piles of straw lying on the ground.  Just then he found it, next to a locked trap door.  Could it be?  There could be billions of dollars under there.  Jeff didn’t know, but he wanted to find out and fast. 

Jeff took his key and put it in the lock.  It fit!  He started to turn the key and…

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