038 The Final Scene by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene [Keene, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mobilism
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Nine

GEORGE!” Nancy raced across the stage. She saw George thrust out an open hand and grab one of the metal grids as she was tossed off the collapsing bridge. She was dangling by the fingertips of her right hand from the metal catwalk that was bouncing up and down like a diving board. Only one end was bolted to the wall now.

“I’m barely holding on!” George yelled. “I’m slipping! Can you get me down?”

Nancy jumped for the end of the walk, which hung above her head, but she couldn’t reach it.

“What’s going on here?” a male voice behind Nancy shouted. From out of nowhere Nicholas Falcone appeared, Joseph right behind him.

“It’s George!” Nancy yelled, pointing up at her friend. “She’s going to fall!”

“I’ll get her!” Nicholas said. He leapt for the end of the walk, and Nancy watched as he pulled himself hand over hand up the dangling catwalk grids.

“I’m on my way, kid!” he called up to her. “Hang on.”

When Nicholas reached George, he braced himself well and wrapped an arm tightly around her waist.

“Okay, I’ve got you,” he said, “and I’m not going to let go. Reach your hand through here and get a secure hold with both hands.”

Nancy held her breath as George managed to work her way hand over hand down the sloping walkway. “That’s it, George,” Nancy said, encouraging her.

Nicholas carefully followed her down again. In less than a minute they were both jumping the last fifteen feet to safety.

Nancy was waiting for them when they reached the floor. She threw her arms around her friend. “I was worried there for a bit,” she said.

“Me, too.” George wiped her forehead with the sleeve of her rugby shirt. When she turned from Nancy to hug her rescuer, Nancy caught a look of gratitude and adoration in George’s eyes.

“That was a fine job of climbing you did there, son,” Joseph said, pounding Nicholas on the back. “You picked a fine time to take a break from the picket line.” Then Joseph turned to George. “I’m glad he got you down in one piece, young lady. But I want to know right now what you were doing up there.”

“We were chasing the kidnapper,” Nancy said, coming to George’s defense.

“The kidnapper?” Nicholas and Joseph exclaimed in unison.

“At least we think that’s who it was,” Nancy added. “We were here in the auditorium and saw some movement behind the curtain. George followed the eavesdropper up the catwalk, but he unbolted it and made one end fall while she was on it.”

“Sounds like the kidnapper is playing hardball now,” Nicholas said, smoothing his dark hair back into place.

George watched the gesture with rapt attention, and Nancy sighed to herself. Her friend had liked Nicholas all along, but now she owed him her life.

Nancy studied Nicholas as he, George, and Joseph continued to discuss the accident. She knew that she should be grateful to him for saving George’s life. And she was. But she couldn’t help being suspicious. Although she hadn’t gotten a close look at that shadowy figure, Nicholas was about the right height and weight.

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