discoveries in the attic

Elfi and Heinrich came over to play with the cubs in the morning. The cubs were doing their math.

"Care to join in?" asked Mum Lioness.

"Oh no!" said Elfi. "We are far far too jet-lagged!"

"You've been back for days and days," protested Arunacub.

"You have never travelled farther than Tiruvannamalai, so you would not know how bad jetlag is," said Elfi.

"This math is not at all like regular math," said Tirucub.

"Oh?" said Elfi, perking up and looking at what the cubs were working on. Soon all traces of jet lag had vanished and Heinrich had joined in too.

After an hour, Mum Lioness told them they could run and play. "But not for too long," she cautioned. "We have to precipitate some DNA before lunch."

"That kind of science is just as fun as math," Tirucub explained to the children.

"I want to patifigate some too!" shouted Omcub joyfully.

"You will, you will," Mum Lioness assured him.

Spotty dashed ahead and hid and the rest of the cubs and the children ran off to find him.

They played hide and seek for a while, then switched to tree climbing.

They were all up and big tree when Tirucub asked, "Did you ever get that safe open?"

"No," said Heinrich. "Papa kept trying that night when the police and all those others were at our house, and Mama tried too, but it would not budge. The police came back in the morning, but it still wouldn't open."

"Want to come and see it?" asked Elfi.

"Of course!" said all four cubs at once.

They all climbed down from the tree and set off with great excitement.

Up in the attic, they all looked at the safe.

"What were the numbers?" asked Arunacub. "Or do you know?"

Papa tried it so many time that I remember," said Elfi proudly. "6-2-5-1-6-9-1-4-4."

"Oh," said Arunacub. "Those are all perfect squares. Let's try 2-5-1-3-1-2 and see what happens."

"But it wasn't all those numbers you just said," said Heinrich.

"Let's just try it," said Arunacub, and he told them the numbers again.

They tried it, and the safe unlocked immediately! When they opened the door, the contents poured out.



"Wow! Look at all this!"

They all drew near. A golden frog suddenly jumped up on Omcub's back, to his great surprise.

"I'd better call Mama and Papa," said Elfi, but when she went to the top of the stairs and shouted, there was no response. "Probably meditating," she said, returning to have a good look at all the treasures.

Arunacub could not resist trying on a gold turban. Spotty began running around in excitement. He ran around behind the safe ...



"Hmmm, what are these?" he asked.



Everyone rushed over to see what Spotty had found.

"Those were never there before!" exclaimed Heinrich.

"Never seen them in my whole life," Elfi agreed.

"Must be something left behind by Miracleananda when they left so suddenly," said Tirucub.

They all tried their best to open the trunks, but the lids would not budge.