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” Huff! Our vacation is about to end in few weeks and 

still no mystery has showed up.’’ complained Meeta. 

“To bad Sheena and Rohan have gone for vacation. A 

mystery turns up every vacation when they are 

around.” Said Rohit.

Both of them were sitting in Meeta’s garden and 

were complaining for not having a mystery to solve 

this vacation. Rohan, Sheena, Rohit, Meeta and 

sometimes Melly, Rohit’s sister were all known for 

solving mysteries in their town.   Their friend, 

Inspector Jenks often helped them to locate culprits 

or trace phone nos., car plate numbers, etc.

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The gate opened and they saw a postman walking 

in. 

“Letter for Miss Meeta.” he shouted.

“Here I am!’’ she waived.

She sat down and opened the letter.

“It’s from Rohan and Sheena.” she sounded 

excited.

Sheena says “they will be back on Monday” 

“That’s Tom Smith!” exclaimed Rohit

The day was over very soon. The next day Rohan 

called Meeta and told her he and Sheena will meet 

them in her garden in the afternoon. Meeta passed 

this message to Rohit and she also asked him to 

send Melly over to her house.

In sometime Melly arrived and rang the bell. Mrs. 

Hellton, Meeta’s mom opened the door. Not 

forgetting her manners Melly politely greeted her 

and asked for Meeta.

‘’She is expecting you in the kitchen, dear.’’

‘’Thanks.’’ saying this she hurried in the house 

directly to the kitchen.

She took a little peep in the kitchen breathing 

delicious aroma from something Meeta and cook 

were cooking.

 ‘’Yumm! Such a delicious smell. What is it?’’ she 

exclaimed. 

 “Oh! You finally arrived Melly. ”said Meeta.

She broke down the news that Sheena and Rohan 

are coming over today and added “That’s why we 

are baking a few cookies and preparing snacks for 

the evening. I called you wondering if you would 

help us. ”

”I will I will!” she shouted excited.

With cook’s help, both spent the whole afternoon 

baking mouth-watering snacks and then set out a 

table in the garden looking forward to receive their 

friends.

They heard the sounds of approaching bikes, soon 

they saw the joyful faces of Rohit, Sheena and 

Rohan on their bikes.

All of them left their bikes next to Melly’s bike and 

entered through the gate which was open 

especially for them.

‘’Hello there!’’ said Rohan.

Melly at once ran and hugged Sheena. That 

evening they chattered about vacation and all the 

fun they had in the past few weeks.

“Now that you both have come back we may have 

a fun mystery to solve.” said Rohit.

“One always turns up when you both are here.” 

added Melly.

‘’I may have something for us to solve.” Sheena 

suddenly spoke up.

‘’What?’’ everyone chorused including Rohan.

“So as you all know we had gone for vacation to a 

nearby beach hotel, in the morning papers was 

mentioned that the Prince of India has come to 

visit our town because he has found out that an 

ancient treasure belonging to his ancestors is 

hidden somewhere here and if somebody helped 

him find the treasure, he or she would be 

handsomely rewarded and would get a chance to 

meet his majesty.” was Sheena’s reply.

“That isn’t exactly a mystery.” Said Rohan in a bit 

of jealousy since he was not aware of this 

happening in the town.

“You are right that is not a mystery but today’s 

newspaper said that yesterday, somebody broke 

into Prince’s room and stole his valuable jewelry. 

They have also mentioned the name of the hotel 

where they are staying. Maybe we can go meet 

him and tell him that we are from this town and 

have experience in solving such cases and after 

Police, we can be his second chance in solving this 

mystery.” saying this Sheena grabbed a glass of 

lemonade and slowly started sipping to sooth her 

throat.

“Don’t you think I ought to know all of this?” 

Rohan asked Sheena.

Taking a break sipping her lemonade she calmly 

replied.

‘’Well I tried telling you but it seems that you were 

too busy singing in the shower.’’

Rohan blushed and everyone broke into a fit of 

laughter. They spent whole evening laughing, 

giggling and talking. Soon it was time for all of 

them to leave. They said their good-byes and 

decided meeting Tom on the same place in the 

morning and made a plan of going to the Police 

station and meeting Inspector Jenks to take 

permission to see the Prince. 

The night went really slowly as five of them 

couldn’t stop thinking about the next day and the 

adventure they had in front of them. 

Soon the moment all the five children were waiting 

for arrived. They quickly changed, ate breakfast 

and headed for Meeta’s garden on their bikes. 

‘’Hi guys! Lets ride of to the Police station and 

meet the Inspector.’’ saying this Melly climbed on 

her bike ready to go.

They all reached the Police station shortly 

thereafter and asked for the inspector; fortunately 

he was not very busy and was available. They were 

all warmly welcomed in the inspector’s office. 

“Good morning Inspector Jenks.” greeted Sheena.

‘’Morning everyone!’’ said the inspector with a 

broad smile stretching from ear to ear.

‘’Inspector we came here to talk to you regarding 

the Indian Prince. We were wondering if we could 

help solving the mystery by talking to the Prince.’’ 

said Rohit pleadingly.

‘’I am happy to know that you guys are interested 

and are willing to help in solving the mystery.’’ was 

the inspector’s reply.

He then pulled out a card and handed it over to 

Sheena. Looking at their puzzled faces he again 

spoke up.

‘’This is an identity card that shows you are from the 

Police side. You need proof that you all can be 

trusted.’’

“Thank you so much we are off to the Prince right 

away.” cried Melly.

They all headed to the Grand Hotel (where the 

Prince was staying) and stopped at the entrance. 

They parked their bikes in the area allocated for 

those and then finally entered the enormous lobby 

of the expensive hotel. As they moved towards the 

reception they saw a rather familiar man standing 

near the lift and waiting.

“Hey! Isn’t that the man who was near Meeta’s 

garden and outside the Police station now he is 

here! I have a funny feeling that he is following us.” 

remarked Melly.

‘’Melly is right! Even I noticed that man. He is 

following us where ever we go, what do we do?’’ 

Meeta spoke up suddenly remembering.

‘’Let’s just ignore the man and move forward.’’ 

Rohit suggested. ‘’We may as well keep an eye on 

him.’’

The others agreed and thought this was a good 

idea and they were again distracted towards the 

mystery. But their thoughts were interrupted by 

the Hotel receptionist - ‘’How may I help you 

children?’’ 

“We have come to meet the Prince who is staying 

in this hotel. Here is the identity card of the Police. 

We need to ask him questions regarding the stolen 

jewelry Inspector Jenks has sent us.” Said Rohan 

so fast that he could hardly breathe.

‘’Fine, you can meet him. The bell boy will escort you 

to his majesty’s room.’’ Saying this she rang the bell 

and a boy dressed in red dress came and asked them 

to follow him. They were taken to the lift and the bell 

boy pressed the last button, floor 20 and up they 

went. Once they got out of the lift they were escorted 

to the one and only room on the floor. They knocked 

o the door and a rather grumpy voice called out.

“Who is it?”

“We have come to meet the Prince.” called out 

Sheena. “We are friends of the Police.”

The door slowly opened and they saw a man with a 

small beard staring at them. He wore a fancy rather 

shiny dress with lots of sequences hanging on the 

soft and silky cloth he had and foreign accent.

Then Sheena showed him the card since she 

noticed him staring at them suspiciously he was a 

bit surprised is what she could make out by his 

expression.

“Follow me.” He said in a severe but polite voice. 

“My name is Charles by the way I am his majesty’s 

butler.” Before they knew they had all entered a 

room with the scent of Indian perfume in that room 

was seated a handsome boy a bit elder to them he 

was dressed in the same way like Charlie just 

another color and next to him sat a beautiful girl 

about Melly’s age dressed in a fluffy blue silk dress 

with sequences on the top.

“I see I have visitors.” announced the Prince.

‘’Your Royal highness we are friends of Inspector 

Jenks and have come to ask you questions regarding 

the stolen jewelry. I know we are small but we have 

quite a good record in solving mysteries so we would 

like to examine clues.’’ saying this Sheena 

introduced themselves.

“I am glad to meet you guys. I am a surprised you 

are getting involved in such things at such small 

age. My name is Prince Alvenmore and she is 

Princess Luna.”

“We are here to question you but first we would like 

it if you will tell us what happened from the 

beginning.” pleaded Meeta.

“Okay if you say so. My father who unfortunately is 

not keeping well has sent me here to do his work 

and my sister has accompanied me for sightseeing.

I thought this place is safe but after my jewelry 

was stolen, I started getting worried about the 

security. I am glad to see that you have 

volunteered to help us; I will be happy to answer 

any questions you think will help nab the thieves.

The questionnaire was conducted by Rohan and 

Sheena.

‘’Are the Police aware about the note?’’

“No, because I didn’t want it to reach the 

newspaper.”

“Do you still have the piece of paper?”

‘’No, but I noticed a twisted black snake sign on 

both the papers I received.”

The children were disappointed to hear this. They 

excused themselves for leaving so soon and went 

back to collect their bikes in all this excitement they 

forgot about the man following them and they rode 

off to their houses, yet before leaving Sheena 

offered that they talk to the inspector about the 

snake symbol and ask if they are familiar with any 

gang using that symbol. What Sheena and Rohan 

didn’t know that they had a surprise waiting for 

them at home. As they reached home Rohan asked 

Sheena to wait outside their shed for a few minutes 

and she obeyed.

In it went a regular school boy but out came an old 

man with wrinkles on his face and long whiskers.

“Oh my goodness is that you Rohan?” gasped 

Sheena.

“I sure am. I am just trying my new disguise I 

bought. I want to try it on mother.” said Rohan 

prouder than ever showing off his new outfit. As 

they walked in they saw three girls on the sofa 

chatting with their mother, Mrs. Kenny. She was in 

for a shock when she saw Sheena with the old man.

 “Who is this darling and where is Rohan?” she 

asked Sheena in astonishment.

“Relax mother this is Rohan! He was just trying out 

his disguise.” replied Sheena in a calm voice.

“Rohan?!” exclaimed Mrs. Kenny. “I will not accept 

dirty old people walking in my house like that 

Rohan. Go and change now!”

Rohan quickly changed and was back in the room 

where everyone was seated he took a seat too.

‘’Hi! I am Nancy Drew from River Heights. My father 

is a lawyer and your father’s friend. These are my 

friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne.’’ Spoke the 

titanic blond girl with blue eyes wearing shorts and a 

blue top.

“We have come here to visit your beautiful town and 

for sightseeing not solving mysteries.” Said Bess, the 

slightly plump blond wearing jeans and a short top.

“I am sorry but this is the first time I agree with my 

cousin, Nancy is fond of solving mysteries and they 

seem to follow her wherever she goes.” Added 

George she had short, black curly hair and wore 

shorts and a short designer top.

“So your mom was telling us that both of you are 

also known for solving mysteries and I was 

wondering if you both would be interested in 

showing us around.” Proposed Nancy.

‘’We would be glad to.’’ Said Sheena.

So it was decided that Sheena and Rohan would 

show the three girls around the next day. Before 

night Sheena and Rohan had to debate whether or 

not to tell Nancy about the mystery and they 

decided to tell her. So the next day before they left 

Sheena and Rohan walked to their guests’ room to 

broke out the news.

 “So I see one more interesting mystery to solve.

Are you sure that there is no other clue accept the 

snake symbol?” Nancy asked them hearing Bess 

and George giving a sigh.

“No other clue at all.” Was the reply from Rohan.

 “I suggest that we keep the mystery aside for now 

and go somewhere for shopping and sightseeing I 

have planned some good places to show you guys.” 

Sheena quickly spoke changing the subject. “We 

are all going to shop till we drop.”

As she finished speaking they heard a loud bang 

from outside, acting quickly Sheena and Rohan 

went running towards the noise as Nancy, Bess, 

and George followed.

When they reached they saw the same man 

following them running out towards the gate but 

Nancy saw a tattoo of a twisted snake on his arm.

“Did you guys notice his arm?” she asked.

“No! What was it?” Bess asked back curiously.

“He had a twisted snake tattoo on his arm the 

description exactly matched it.” She answered.

“He was the same man following us there; maybe 

he followed us back home. We anyways forgot all 

about him in all this excitement about the 

mystery.” Sheena suggested.

‘’I think you are right Sheena.’’ 

agreed Rohan nodding his head.

George quickly changed the subject.

‘’Rohan do you know any nice place where we can go 

jogging next morning?’’

‘’Yes, we can go jogging near the river if you like.’’ He 

said.

“For now let’s go and hit the market.” As Sheena said 

shopping Bess’s face lit up.

They all reached the market all of them tried different 

shops. Bess bought a blue hat which showed her 

blond hair beautifully and a matching dress with some 

heels. Nancy bought a showpiece for her housekeeper, 

a beautifully carved pencil case for her dad, a 

gorgeous pen for Ned Nickerson her date and a few 

more gifts. 

George just got a few workout clothes since she is 

not much into fashion and shopping. Once 

everyone was done shopping they went to the 

Police station to talk with Inspector Jenks Nancy 

offered to come with them while Bess and George 

went back home.

‘’Morning Inspector Jenks.’’ Rohan greeted him with 

a smile.

“Good Morning Rohan and Sheena, I see you have 

a friend with you.” He friendly replied.

“Hi inspector, I am Nancy Drew from River Heights 

I assume you know Chief Mc Ginnis.”

Yes! I do know him, and you are the girl detective 

‘’Nancy, he tells me about you.

You have quite a reputation for solving mysteries. 

It’s a pleasure to have you here.’’ He said shaking 

her hand.

After talking a bit Sheena and Rohan narrated the 

story making sure not to leave any detail behind.

“I will be right on it.” Jenks said when they asked 

him to search a gang with twisted snake symbol.

They thanked the Inspector and left home. As they 

reached the phone rang, Sheena picked it up. After 

talking for a long time on it she joined the others.

“It was Meeta’s phone she has some good news for 

us and wants to meet in the afternoon.” Sheena 

reported.

The morning passed very quickly after that. 

Meeta, Melly and Rohit were introduced when they 

came. Once everyone was seated Meeta started,

“That day Rohit was trying out his new disguise we 

didn’t recognize him but then he again came back 

wearing the same disguise we knew it was him, but 

just then the man following us came down the 

street. Rohit was still wearing his disguise so 

thinking quick he grabbed a pen and pad and went 

running to him asking for his name and number for 

his school project. Now guess what?” Meeta 

mysteriously asked in the end.

“He gave us his number and name.” Rohit replied 

“Let’s try it out.” Suggesting this Nancy grabbed 

the phone and dialed the number written on the 

paper Rohit held out.

“Hello’’ said a friendly woman’s voice.

Nancy and the woman had a short conversation 

and finally she kept the phone back.

“The woman said we need to take an appointment 

to meet him. I told her to set an appointment for 

Tom tomorrow at 4pm. I have a plan too. I, Rohit, 

and Rohan will go in disguise of reporters and ask 

him questions at the same time search for clues.” 

Said Nancy.

So the plan was made.

Next day, in the morning, Nancy, Rohan and Rohit 

went to the shed to choose some of Rohan’s 

disguises. They made up their choice by afternoon 

and were now ready to leave. They made an early 

start since Nancy had to rent a bicycle. After all of 

them had their bikes they went to the address the 

women had given to Nancy. When they reached 

they saw a small office on the corner of the road. 

The banner read ‘’Tom Smith’s answered 

questions’. As they entered they felt the shiver of 

excitement because on the desk sat the same man 

following them and who had given them his name 

and number.

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