Read The 39 Clues: Book 8 Online
Authors: Gordan Korman
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The 39 Clues: Book 8 (20 page)
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was one thing I couldn't leave." He reached into the pocket of his jeans and drew out the painted miniature in the gold frame.
Amy was thunderstruck. "A picture of Mom?"
"Look closer. The clothes, the hair. That's not Mom. It's old. Maybe centuries old."
Amy took the miniature and peered at it. "An ancestor, then."
"A
Cahill
ancestor," Dan amended. "And when you've got Cahills--"
"They're usually mixed up in the thirty-nine clues." Amy gently pried the oval miniature out of the frame. The portrait was unmarked and unsigned. But engraved on the inside of the frame was: PROPERTY OF ANNE BONNY.
"Anne Bonny!" Amy repeated. "She was a pirate in the Caribbean--the most notorious female pirate ever! Was she a Cahill?"
"Only one way to find out," replied Dan. "Looks like we're going to the Caribbean."
Nellie, who had been dozing, sat bolt upright in her chair. "Did somebody say Caribbean?"
"The next clue might be there," Amy confirmed.
"Now, that's more like it!" Nellie crowed. "Number thirty-five sunblock, bikinis, beach time, drinks served in coconuts --I'm so in!"
Outside the guesthouse, the shadowy hulk of Everest loomed over them, now holding one less secret.
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