Sorry, this chapter is a little on the short side.

Nack was gone for most of the afternoon. Bark spent the whole time digging. His progress was slow, slower than a sick, legless cockroach. Snyder and the Beaver were more talk than action, and Bean had left a long time ago do go do whatever it was that Bean did in his free time. Bark was getting more worn out by the minute. And the wooden fence seemed to have no bottom.

It was late in the day before Nack returned, a victorious expression on his face. Bark looked up as the weasel jerked his head towards the building. Bark laid down his shovel and joined him. "Nice of you to show up." He said flatly. "Don't tell me that you've spent this whole time talking murder with Eliah?"

Nack narrowed his eyes threateningly. Bark raised his eyebrow, and Nack looked around. "I've discovered the secret of Chateau Royal!" His hissed in a voice so low that Bark had strain his ears to hear it.

"Really?" He asked somewhat skeptical.

"Wow!" Said Bean as he butted into the conversation. Apparently he had been poking around the bushes.

"It's a code, so I still have my work cut out for me."

"Is it a common code?" Bean asked. "Or more of a flu?"

"It's a number code." Nack said, gritting his teeth. "All I have to do is make sense of it. When I first went into the office, I didn't see nothing suspicious. The only thing in that room is a some kind bird in a cage. All of a sudden it started screeching these numbers over and over again. Over and over. It's gotta mean something." He looked around to make sure no one was listening, leaned in towards Bark and Bean, and hissed very softly, "Six-one-one-one-five."

"Six-one-one-one-five?" Bean yelled excitedly.

"Bean!" Nack yelled, annoyed.

"That's it!" Someone shouted.

"Ee-yes!"

Bark, Bean, and Nack looked up. Shade Hunter and Heather grinned down at them from the top of a large maple tree. With one last salute, the two of them jumped out of the tree and ran towards the hotel.

"Nice going." Nack snapped at Bean.

Bean lowered his head sheepishly and looked back up at Nack. "Sorry, Nack. I get carried away."

"Don't tempt me." Nack grumbled. "Now where are those two off to? And why did they want to know the code? I'm telling you Bark, those two-"

Nack was cut off by the sudden squawking of a bird. It was coming from inside the hotel. "New one coming tonight! New one coming tonight! Ferra found it! She gotta go! Ferra gotta go!"

Bark looked around. Snyder and Natalie were snacking on chips, but they had paused when they heard the warning. Shade Hunter and Heather stopped in their tracks halfway to the door. The Beaver poked his head sharply out from behind a bush. He turned sharply. Bark followed his gaze over to Ferra. The brown and blue ferret was quivering with fear.

"Too late!" Mandy cried, "Too late!"

The side door slowly opened to reveal Eliah. The purple was clutching her shovel in one hand and Ferra's bags in the other. She slowly walked the whole length of the courtyard. Reaching Ferra, she dropped the suitcase. "You've been evicted." She said slowly as she grabbed the back of the ferret's shirt and dragged her away. As she neared the door, the ferret let out a piteous moan, one that filled the very air with sadness and left it empty as the sound died away. "The rest is silence." She said. Eliah tugged on her shirt and the door closed.

And the rest was silence.

Once again, sorry for the shortness. I'm going to go start the next chapter right away.