The Do-Gooders, Part 2
In which Taylor and Jonny dig up the hidden treasure!
When we left Taylor and Jonny after the events of The Do-Gooders Part 1 and Part 1.5, the siblings were about to dig up the yard of Soren the witch to find the hidden treasure.
Taylor and Jonny find a series of clues indicating that an ancient jug is buried somewhere on the property. Their clue-following takes them to hidden corners and an underground tunnel, but they’re stumped by the very last clue — a poem that would lead them straight to the jug, but with a crucial word scratched out. Soren has not been interested in their search until now because he said it would only lead to woe. But when they ask him for advice about the scratched-out word, a tear comes to his eye and he says this is a poem his mother used to recite to him when he was a wee lad, before she died in a tragic uranium mining accident after which he was never able to truly love again.
The missing word leads them to discover the ancient jug, which contains a thousand dollars in small bills. Soren tells them to keep it. They were the ones who put in the work to find it, and he doesn’t need money. All he really wants is for someone with whom to share his love of ancient Egyptian culture.
“Is that why you keep throwing crumpled papers out the window?” asks Taylor.
“Yes,” says Soren, “this is how I communicate with the outside world. But the world does not care.”
Taylor and Jonny spend the thousand dollars on a computer and Internet access for Soren. Soren is skeptical of the devil box at first, but experiences joy for the first time in decades when he realizes how many fellow Egyptologists are out there waiting to hear what he has to say.
Having done their good deeds for the month, Taylor and Jonny return home to find that their parents have gone away to Aspen without them. Learn the fate of the elder Bunwiths tomorrow in… THE DO-GOODERS, Part 3!