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The Drowning Detectives
Goldie Richardson
Quin dug around in the attic closet looking for some old family reci-
pes. After searching for a long time something caught her eye. It was
a newspaper and not just any old newspaper, it was a golden crum-
bling newspaper. The headline read: WOMAN MYSTERIOUSLY
DROWNS IN GREEN RIVER. She read more and gasped. It said
that the woman was with two other people, her great-great-great-
great grandparents Mary and Jesse Bubbles.
“Quin time for lunch.” Her mom called from downstairs. Quin gently
put the ancient newspaper back in the closet. Going down the stairs
she started thinking, “Who was Nora Bubbles?” No one ever talked
about her.
Entering the kitchen she smelled her favorite lunch: honey smoked
ham and Swiss cheese sandwiches. She sat down in her assigned
seat and looked around to see who was there. Her parents and older
brother Fred sat at the table along with Sue her younger sister and
Lucy her twin sister.
After eating lunch together she asked “Can Lucy and I be excused?”
“Yes,” her mother replied and the twins rinsed their plates and went
to the attic.
“Why are we up here?” asked Lucy. “We are here because of a
newspaper from June 17, 1867.” said Quin. Then she handed the old
paper to Lucy who read it. “Ahh!” said Lucy. “I know the woman in
this picture. She is our great-great-great-great Aunt Nora Bubbles.
She drowned in Green River.” As Quin thought about this she had an
idea. Green River was just two blocks away.
Quin grabbed Lucy’s hand and said, “Let’s go to Green River and
find some evidence.” As Quin and Lucy ran to Green River, Quin
explained the old newspaper said that Mary and Jesse told the police
that no one could just fall into the river when there’s a fence. It also
said that the couple had found a newspaper on the ground and read
it. Then they heard a splash and a neigh. Also Nora’s husband had
been murdered 2 years earlier by a man named Lenard Snart.
As Quin and Lucy drew nearer to the river they saw a soggy old
newspaper. They picked it up and saw that it was old and crumbly. It
was dated 1867! Then the twins turned around and saw a man with
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