The Alien Artifact 9 (Novelette) by V Bertolaccini Read Free Book Online Page B

interest! I will need your
help!”
    “ Alright!” I gasped, and sat back
examining him, and silently gulped, and watched him put his pipe in
his mouth.
    “ According to Dr Barrymore and legends
there have been people that have been found dead after searching
for it … ”
he announced, silently.
    “ Legends?” I replied, and watched the
flames ignite as Marple rolled up an old newspaper and threw it
into the fire flames.
    He nodded in agreement, and examined my face
a little more.
    For a moment I considered there being a
danger in the treasure hunt, and why he wanted my assistance, and I
also wondered why it would still exist, and doubted the value of
the objects, and waited patiently.
    What I knew was that I had been given a
major clue to its location and I wondered if he wanted me to
determine where it was, to see if we came to the same
conclusion.
    I got out a recent map of the region and
studied it in detail, and he watched on with curiosity, and I
watched him open the document Dr Barrymore had when he had first
met us, and told us of the treasure.
    He examined the ancient tattered piece of
parchment with a magnify glass, where there were lines and words
scribbled over it, as though the writer had been doing something
and was in a great rush to finish it!
    “ So it’s a verified 1568 map?” I
asked, and he nodded, and continued to try to grasp what it
meant.
    Marple finished examining it and placed it
on the table, and looked over and asked, “So you want to know
what’s on the map? I’ve had it rechecked and it is Langside, and
the area you’ve been working in …”
    I realized it was there, but it never gave
the proper location, and there was only a mark of something on it,
which I was sure was something that was not part of the
landscape.
    “ The paranormal investigators phoned
earlier and they asked you to join them in their investigation of
the hospital.”
    “ You want me to join them working
there and to search for it?”
    “ Yes! I’d like you to search for it,
when you do, and to phone me with anything of interest, or for
information!”
     

Chapter 15
     
    The Shaft
     
    I was staggered at the deadliness of it
altering in magnitude or something was playing tricks with me and
it was being magnified!
    Sounds were unidentifiable and I realized
that I was observing another form of the encounter! This time it
was far different than the last. Even though I had collapsed and
went unconscious at the last occurrence, when I had activated the
metal detector.
    What was going on! The world about me seemed
to be going crazy! The war was accelerating on and the Home Guard I
was in was being activated more for a potential attack. Marple was
going crazy trying to capture the killer, with his ultimate
challenge, and all the investigators were pursuing every lead.
    The hospital seemed to be on the brink of an
entrance point to the afterlife or some form of supernatural region
of space, and all the paranormal scientists were working away
there, every night, as occurrences were occurring everywhere, and
though they were delighted in it they were not only not making any
progression in what was occurring and they were accumulating a
repeatedly increasing amount of unsolved mysteries, and I was
investigating one of the most baffling of them.
    Something was occurring down a major shaft
in one of the walls, which we found hidden away in a wall at the
top of the hospital, and I had entered it and was going down it,
when something had activated, at precisely the same time the
occurrences occurred in the hall of the house in Craigmillar
Road.
    I had only entered and shifted down the
shaft, when the sounds emerged below me and had amplified, and as I
slowly moved down, they had gone mind-bending!
    They were screaming up at me through the
shaft with a dangerous fury that stunned me, and no matter how I
tried to shake them off and contemplate their identities I could
not form stable recognitions of what was there.
    I never