He then whispered joyfully," C'mon everyone, dad's here, yours too, Willy."
The children climbed up delighted.
Until the others had climbed, Cam had cut off their ropes.
The three had now climbed up and they clung to their beloved folks, for they hadn't seen them for days.
"Ah, I knew you would come, my dear children, "said their father proudly hugging the children.
"But dad, why did you ask us to rescue you why not the police? Asked Cam, confused.
"If the police got involved, those men could easily steal the money from the ship. That's why I informed you. The man behind all this, Richard, was an employee in our office. For some reason, he was fired from the job, and for all those years he has been trying to somehow steal the money which gets carried to distant places for the needy as revenge but has never been this successful. I guess this time he will loot the ship." informed their dad.
"We won't let them do so, we promise", said Cam and all agreed.
"Well, for now, let's get out of here." demanded Thomas, "Those goons will be back soon."
"Hold your horses Thomas, Willy's father has been shot on his leg, he cannot walk. "said Cam's father. Willy burst into tears. "Don't worry about that, Willy and I will carry him," said Cam helping Mr. Williams stand up.
Thomas, Jenny, and their dad went down the ladder.
Willy and Cam put Mr. Williams on their shoulders and went down slowly.
Now they had crowded in the little room. Again, Jenny, Thomas, and their father rappelled down the rope. First, Mr. Andrew hid the children in the bushes, so that they won't be spotted easily and then tossed it back into the room through which Williams rappelled down and their father tossed back the rope to Cam.
Now, it was the boys' turn to come down. Willy was about to go down when Cam pulled him up by his collar and threw him back in the room.
" Hey, what's the matter?" asked Willy. Well, Cam had done so because when Willy was going down Cam's eyes fell upon two shadows that he knew weren't of his family. He wanted to alarm Thomas, Jenny, and his dad but it was too late.
Two men appeared from a small storeroom, built right next to the bushes, and got hold of Jenny and Thomas; the other one tackled Mr. Andrew. Their father tried his best to overpower the goons but it was of no use as the goons were much stronger than him. At last, Mr. Andrew gave up and was tied with the other two.
Willy, Mr. Williams, and Cam quietly sat on the window watching others being dragged away mercilessly.
They were all dragged to the hall where sat the old man smoking a pipe.
He began, "So Andrew, you thought you would escape without anyone's notice, huh? And who are these, your children?" asked the man holding Thomas by the collar. Wait a second, where's Williams?" shouted the man. " Go get him, you idiots." instructed the man. He went to have talk with his gang when Jenny had an excellent idea. She had cut her rope with her penknife and was waiting for a moment to run away. Now was her chance, when the men were away. She raced across the hall like a mouse and squeezed up through the chimney.
The men chased her but they were too late. Jenny was already on the rooftop waving her torch to signal like mad.