Case Files: #1 The Haunting in Fairchild Mansion

Chapter 9

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"You caught the ghost of Olivia Fairchild?!" Mrs. Harper exclaimed. "I'm so proud of you kids."

"Moom stop that. It's embarrassing." Alvin whispered.

"Now let's see who tried to scare all the buyers away..." Diana removes the mask.

"Bridgette?!" Everyone gasped. "But why?!!"

"It's simple." Diana explained. " You see, Olivia Fairchild left her treasure inside this mansion untouched. Bridgette here knows all about it and started searching right away. But when she heard that mom has plans on selling this mansion, she disguised herself as the ghost to scare people away. But it didn't work on us and instead we kept on solving this mystery so she had to keep her eyes on us all the time. When she knew that we are a threat to her plans, she locked us inside one of the old rooms in the mansion."

"Luckily, I found the switch!" Alvin added.

"Yes you did." She rolled her eyes. "My suspicions started when she told us she bought strawberry jams in the grocery. When I checked, it's the same jam we found inside the kitchen."

"How did she fly up in the air? I saw it with my own two eyes!" Mr. Chu asked.

"He didn't." Cooper replied. "It was a projection of the ghost. She had placed lightings all over the mansion. Lightings that we used ourselves for bait. Guess your plans backfired, Bridgette."

"I wouldn't have. If it weren't for the three of you!" She fumed as the police handcuffed her.

"How zo you know there'z treasure in zere?" Madame Vochichwa inquired.

"Wait, you also know about the treasure?" Diana asked.

"Yez. That is why I boss around. Protect it from otherz since it's for my best friend, Lolly."

"You and grandma are friends?!" Diana and Alvin were surprised.

"Uh, yez. But I dont know exact location only that it's in thiz place." She replied. But back to ze real question. How you know?"

"I think she can explain it CLEARLY." Diana gave her a stern look. "And she can also explain how Brooklyn killed Olivia!"

HUH!! Another gasped was heard from the crowd.

"My Grandma is not a killer! Well she.. She.. didn't mean it." She sighed. "We were blinded by the treasure. She wouldn't listen to when granny asked for it. She won't share it so she did what she thought was right. She pushed her in one of the windows. Mother passed the story to me so I decided to finish the job for my family."

"It wasn't even yours, maam." The police confronts her. "Now what you get is a sentence to jail."

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"So where is the treasure?" Mrs. Harper asked. "It wasn't even revealed to anyone!"

"Before she died, Olivia left a clue inside the library." Diana opens the piece of note:

"The nest of my sorrows hides riches you could possibly imagine. Find the four corners, let those light up the dark and ignite the spark...

The spark!" She exhilarated. "Everyone follow me. I think I know where the treasure is."