Alice-Miranda to the Rescue by Jacqueline Harvey

Author:Jacqueline Harvey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2016-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

‘Isn’t that Howie’s car?’ Alice-Miranda said, pointing to the small green sedan across the road. ‘I thought she was going to visit her sister for the weekend.’

‘There must be another meeting at Mrs Parker’s.’ Sloane stuffed a flyer into Ambrosia Headlington-Bear’s letterbox. Given the number of cars in the lane, there was certainly something going on. Just as the girl finished saying so, the Parkers’ front door opened and several women spilled out onto the porch.

‘Thank you, ladies,’ Mrs Parker trilled. ‘Don’t forget our next meeting is on Tuesday evening. I want you to have put all of the things we discussed in place by then. I will speak with Miss Grimm and Professor Winterbottom this afternoon to give them the details and lock down that plan for the accommodation.’

‘Hello Mrs Parker,’ Alice-Miranda called out.

‘Oh hello dear,’ the woman replied, then promptly turned her attention back to her guests.

Alice-Miranda greeted the other committee members as they trickled down to their cars and squeezed in a quick conversation with Evelyn Pepper. She and the woman had grown close when Bonaparte and Rockstar, Aunty Gee’s prized racehorse, had become the best of friends and Rockstar had won the Queen’s Cup.

‘You’ll have to come and see us soon. Rockstar would love a visit,’ Evelyn said. ‘He hasn’t seen Bonaparte in ages.’

‘Bony would love that too. Perhaps we’ll come tomorrow afternoon,’ the child said.

‘I’ll bake some scones just in case.’ Evelyn Pepper smiled and hopped into her battered Land Rover. The woman gave a wave as she drove away.

Alice-Miranda skipped up the driveway. She wanted to ask Mrs Parker if there was anything more she and the girls could do to help with the dog show. The woman was talking to a man in a smart suit. He had a thick head of silver hair and was one of those people her mother would have called immaculate, from his shiny shoes to the polished buttons on his double-breasted jacket.

‘Alice-Miranda,’ Myrtle warbled, ‘may I introduce you to Major Alistair Foxley? He’s the Chairman of Chudleigh’s Dog Show.’

‘Hello Major Foxley, I’m Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones, and I’m very pleased to meet you,’ the girl said, shaking hands with the man.

Alistair smiled. ‘Lovely to meet you too.’

Sloane had jogged to the end of the cul-de-sac to deliver the second-last flyer and was about to stuff the final one into Mrs Parker’s letterbox when the woman caught sight of her.

‘What on earth are you putting in there, Sloane Sykes?’ she bellowed. ‘If you have mail, don’t you think it would be easier just to hand it to me?’

Sloane looked at the page in her hand and dawdled up the driveway. ‘Sorry, Mrs Parker, I thought you were busy,’ she said sheepishly.

‘Major Foxley, this is Sloane Sykes,’ Alice-Miranda said.

‘What have you got there?’ he asked, glimpsing the photograph of the pup.

‘Yes, and did I see you girls putting something on that post?’ Mrs Parker squinted down the street.

Alice-Miranda quickly explained the situation with the lost pup.

Major Foxley looked closely at the photograph.

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