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    Four Vases (Daughters)
    Four Vases (Daughters)
    Four Vases (Daughters)
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    Four Vases (Daughters)

    By D. E. Harrison

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    A fellow in a sport coat from England is looking for four ancient vases. He is the only person aware of what they might mean. He brings one of the four with him from England. He has leads on where the others may be.
    The sport coat sneaks into several places, checking out vases looking for the next one.

    His search leads to the world’s vase collector of all collectors. He may have one of the remaking three.
    The sport coat brought with him two Chinese vases and all their documentations over thousands of years. He does not want to trade, but he will.
    The old collector has one of the remaining vases but does not want to part with it for anything. Not because it is special, but he collects vases.
    A deeper review shows the old collector may have two of the three vase he wishes. How can ever get both?

    Meanwhile a couple is hired to find some vases for the old collector. They use less than legal means in their quest to save a buck. The sport coat and couple start to cross paths in their search but neither knows it.
    A fourth party show up and begins a different search for the same vases. One vase maybe in a tavern and two people see that it might be a missing one. The fourth person takes up dancing at the tavern to better check out the vase.
    Meanwhile two people are at the museum, where another vase maybe. The sport coat becomes aware of the couple looking for vases. Both are surprised when the vase in the museum is gone.
    Another location for a vase maybe in the police impound. It will be auctioned off, soon.
    Can the vase in the tavern is replaced with no one the wiser?

    The dancer somehow ends up with all four vases and asks for some information at the university. They provide nothing but wish to see what see has. They know nothing about the vases but there is an inscription she has.

    The dancer must call all the interested parties searching for the vases to a meeting. There it is decided that everyone will go on a dig in Africa to discover if the vase’s message is real or fake. All seven people leave for Africa.
    Will they find the treasure promised by the vases?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateMar 8, 2019
    ISBN9780463221556
    Four Vases (Daughters)
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      Four Vases (Daughters) - D. E. Harrison

      Four Vases (Daughters)

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2003 by D. E. Harrison

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      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1 the Condo Visit

      Chapter 2 Continue seeking the Vases

      Chapter 3 Three New People Search for Vases

      Chapter 4 the Old Vase Collector

      Chapter 5 The Museum’s Vase

      Chapter 6 The Naked Vase Tavern

      Chapter 7 The Royal Vases

      Chapter 8 Four People Hunting for Vases

      Chapter 9 The Tavern and Museum Vases

      Chapter 10 The Naked Tavern and Condo Vases

      Chapter 11 Everyone is Busy Looking for Vases

      Chapter 12 One Seeker has All Four Vases

      Chapter 13 Sandra Goes to School

      Chapter 14 Joining Together into Two Teams

      Chapter 15 The Two teams are Now One

      Chapter 16 Madagascar’s Local History

      Chapter 17 Leave the Dig to Search North

      Chapter 18 First Day in the Valley

      Chapter 19 Digging at the Mouth of the Canyon

      Chapter 20 Start the Dig in the Valley

      Chapter 21 Start Trenching in the Valley

      Chapter 22 Reinforce the Dig with Steel

      Chapter 23 Exploring the Tiled Floor of the Valley

      Chapter 24 Tunnels are found under the Valley’s Tiled Floor

      Chapter 25 The Last few Days in the Valley

      Chapter 26 The End Comes Quickly

      Epilogue

      About D. E. Harrison

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      Prologue

      In a small college town apartment in southern England we find a person pouring over copies of charred, worm eaten manuscripts. The ink that is present is still vibrant. Some of the worms never made it to their next meal when they choose to eat the bright red lead-based paint.

      In addition to the pieces of parchment there are four photographs from relief sculptures. They are of young women dressed in a costume better fitted for BC in early Mesopotamia.

      He thinks to himself, ‘I know the ages of these four girls. From this manuscript, it says the oldest was 29 years old. That is well established. The youngest had to be 17 before she could come out. There is enough from the other chronicles to set the ages of the others at 19 and 23. It might be a coincidence, but all those numbers are all prime. Strange, but from the few words and other information I have, their ages are important. Let’s say that it happened, and someone took advantage of it.

      ‘So, when you subtract (17,19, 23, 29) you get 2 and 4 and 6 with the first from the last is 12 and yet the first 3 differences add up to 12 also.

      ‘THAT is too much. So now if I take 12 from 90, I get 78; but 78 times 4 is 312 and the 4 girls times the difference of 12 is 48. The 312 and 48 adds to 360. The same as 4 times 90.’

      His thoughts turn to the spoken words, "Bloody good, then each daughter is a jewel as they said, but what they likely meant was each of the ages when the youngest came out is a jewel (prime number). And together they form the perfect circle. I like it. These old boys liked numbers and by the fates they were given these combinations. OK, I pack up with what I have, and with the other inquires I have made, I am ready to go.

      "I have just one other store to stop at down on Cockney street and get my other clothes. Then I am off.

      I am sure there are four vases, one for each girl. I am going to find them, if they still exist. They may lead to the biggest find yet.

      Chapter 1 the Condo Visit

      In a small but well-kept apartment in the seedier part of town in the eastern USA, a neat handwritten list is being looked at in a new pocket notebook. There are seven names and addresses listed. The note book goes into the vest pocket of an almost new sports coat and then the door closes as it goes out.

      Meanwhile in an upbeat condo, whose price is in the mid six figures; we hear Steve Jones trying to get his wife out the door,

      Come on dear, the car is down stairs. You look great! Either come now or we will be late.

      I am coming, my white mink is fine with this?

      Sure, looks good, let’s go.

      They leave by the condo unit’s front entrance and find their car and the doorman holding the passenger door open for the Mrs. Jones.

      While just ½ a block down the street, the sport coat watches as they pull away from the curb. The sport coat joins a group of people coming down the street headed for the front door. He joins them with a present in one hand and a large number of balloons down around his face. The doorman welcomes them all in. Shortly, no one notices the present and balloons are now in someone else’s hands. The sport coat takes the four flights of stairs, two at a time, until they are on the 10th floor.

      The door lock is quickly overcome, the security alarm is set back to normal and the blinds are all pulled on all the windows. But then who would notice any lights from the 10th floor apartment. With the lights now on, booties over the shoes, the search may start in earnest. (Strange, no gloves were put on.)

      The first item inspected is the vase in the entryway. It is picked up, rubbed over, a bright light reveals its inside. Then it is put back where it was. Next are several vases in the living room., then the one in the kitchen full of flowers, two smaller ones are inspected in the master bedroom. In all their total value is nearly $20,000. The intruder stops at the mantel and inspects a tennis trophy and then places it back on the shelf.

      The lights are turned off and the curtains opened as they were. The alarm is reset as the door is opened and then self-locks. Our careful intruder is down the stairs out of the way of any cameras, out the basement, over a fence and gone. It takes less than seven minutes from the time the condo-door opened until it was re-locked.

      Back in the small, clean apartment, a cross goes through the check mark by the first name on the list. Six or less to go.

      After midnight, the Jones return to their condo, Outside the doorman greets them, Good evening sir, I will have someone take your car to the garage.

      No need, Mr. Jones says.

      Steve, I am not going down into the garage with my mink!

      Steve asks the doorman, Shall I turn it off?

      No sir, he is on his way up. Good night sir.

      They exit the elevator, Steve Jones unlocks their door, turns the light on in the entryway and resets the alarm. They go straight to the bedroom and are a sleep in ten minutes.

      The next morning after he goes to the office, Mrs. Jones is cleaning up some before the maids arrives. She is in the kitchen when out loud, That is not the way I left my flowers. That poor lily is facing the wrong way. The water is a little above the middle glass flower. Someone has added more water! But nothing else is out of place in the bedroom. I wonder…

      After some careful inspections Mrs. Jones realizes, Every vase has been moved ever so little; in the entryway, living room and, my tennis trophy is never that far back on the mantel. It always has the front gold trim just ahead of Steve’s.

      She is on the phone, instantly, This is Mrs. Jones, I must speak with my husband, I do not care what he is doing. This is urgent.

      Hello dear, what is so important that I had to be called out of a meeting?

      Did you touch any of the vases or add water to my flowers in the kitchen?

      No dear, I would never do such a thing. I am not allowed to.

      He is no longer concerned, a flower emergency.

      Well, someone was in our home while we were gone last night. I know where my vases are. They also touched my trophy. If I was not so tidy, well I would have never noticed the small changes in place.

      June, what do you want me to do? he is now concerned for her.

      Come home, call the police, I will not touch anything else until you get here.

      Steve is now thinking, Fine, I am on my way home. June don’t hang up. Get out of there. You wait for me in the lobby. Set the phone down now and walk out the door now.

      He hears the door close before he hangs up and heads for his car.

      In less than an hour there are four people outside the door to their unit. The building manager and security provider join them in the lobby. The security man says, after inspecting the doorway lock.

      The lock shows nothing to indicated it was tampered with. Let’s go in and check the system. See, the security case shows nothing that would say it was forced. Let’s open it and see what it looks like inside. I will use my screw drive so as not to disturb any finger prints. Well, nothing there either. But last week I upgraded your unit with a new feature we are testing. By placing this code into it, I will have a list of the last three locks that were made to it. They are coded to mean nothing unless you have the code.

      Let’s see, the system was reset; at 8:16 pm last night, at 8:24 pm, at 12:15 am this morning. You had a visitor for a few minutes last night. Anything Missing?

      Nothing, except my vases were not quite put back in the same place, says Mrs. Jones.

      The security man says, I suggest you call the police and I will go over the cameras with the building manager, if that is all right with you.

      The building manger interrupts, Yes, of course. We have never had any problems before. We will change all the locks in the entire building. It must be an inside job, who else would know you were out and the security system.

      The security man continues, We did not standardize the security system in this building. What works here will not work on any other unit. It will trip an alarm. Whoever did this, for whatever reason was very specific, and knew what they were doing.

      June nods, "See I knew someone had touched my vases. But I only looked, no, I did not touch them, except the one in the kitchen, but

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