Chapter 51

“Have you both gone deaf?” Captain Murphy asked as he walked towards them, while the rest of his team stayed back and waited for him.

“I just asked you both a question. I said, what are you doing here?” He asked again, now standing in front of them but they were too embarrassed to speak.

“I believe that I'm not speaking to deaf and dumb guards, right?” He asked. “Stan? Fred?” He called their names.

“Yes, Captain.” They both answered.

“Oh, they are not deaf, after all.” Captain Murphy said, as he waited for them to start talking.

“So?” He urged them, raising his eyebrows, still waiting patiently for them to begin to talk about what they were up to at Steve's house.

“Actually, we were trying to go into the house to search for-” Fred began to talk shakily.

“Wait, what!?” Captain Murphy exclaimed, interrupting him as he was unable to believe his ears. “You were trying to do what?”

“To go into the house to search.” Fred replied, pointing at Steve's house behind them.

“To search for what exa