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When we last left Christina she was going to answer the door. Who could it be? Join me as we now we return to our story…

Further transcription of childhood scrawl:

They opened the door! They did not see any thing! They looked again! They did not see anything! Then they heard a noise! They looked in the attic! Then right in the middle of the room there was a bat! Everybody shouted Christina”! That is a vampire bat! Everybody began to run! Then Christina said, that is was not a real bat, it was a paper bat. Then everybody went down the stairs, and went to their room! They saw everything was stolen! But the person that had stolen their things had dropped a name card! The name was Mystery Max! And Christina knew Max! She went to school the next morning, and captured Max! And found her piano back!

The End
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There, you see? A happy ending. I’ve always loved those. Apparently I used to love overusing exclamation points as well. Is anyone else amused that the thief just “happened” to drop a calling card? And that Christina knew him from school? I hope that everyone else (whoever they are) got their stuff back, too. Also…do we want to know how a paper bat was making noise in the attic? It would seem that Mystery Max was a mouse of many talents, including doorbell ditching (or door knock ditching.)

Stay tuned tomorrow for one of the illustrations that comes with this story. That’s right. This story is illustrated. No plain boring text here.