Chocolate Money Mystery by Alexander Mccall Smith
Author:Alexander Mccall Smith [Smith, Alexander Mccall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Chapter 5
The Trapdoor
Maddy waited until Max was hidden behind the woodpile. Then she drew a deep breath and dashed as fast as she could to the back of the dog shed. So far so good, she thought. Now all she had to do was to wait for Max’s signal. This came a minute or so later, a low whistle which anybody else would think was a bird call but which she knew was her brother. At this, Maddy took out the twig she had tucked into her pocket and began to scratch at the back of the shed.
For a dog it was an interesting noise, and it meant only one thing—rats! Immediately Maddy started, the dogs began to whine and bark, and the more she scratched, the harder the dogs barked. What a rat it must be, thought the St Bernards. Oh, quick! Let us at it! We’ll teach it a thing or two!
Exactly as Max had hoped, the back door was flung open and Professor Sardine strode out.
“Why are you making that noise?” he yelled angrily. “You wretched dogs! I’ll teach you to disturb my afternoon nap!”
The irate professor strode to the dog shed to bang loudly on their door. He and his assistant had spent the entire night out, planning the next robbery, and they were now terribly tired. The one thing he wanted to do was to sleep so he would be wide awake for the wicked schemes they had planned for that night.
As the professor reached the shed, Max rose to his feet, checked that the coast was clear, and ran round the side of the house. The back door was still open, and he shot in, while Professor Sardine was still threatening and shouting at the dogs.
Inside, Max found himself in a kitchen, with a large wood-burning stove, a table, and onions and hams hanging from the roof-beams. He did not stay there, though, but quickly opened a door into a corridor. Several doors led off this, and Max took the first, hoping that he would discover nobody in the room behind it. But he was wrong. There was somebody in the room. It was the man who had come for Rudolf, and he was lying on a bed in one corner…fast asleep!
Max caught his breath and closed the door silently behind him. If you’ve ever been in a room with a sleeping person, whom you don’t want to wake, you’ll know what it’s like. People are never quite still when they’re asleep. They snuffle and move their toes. And at any moment, you think the slightest movement from you will wake them up.
Max looked about him. There was another bed in the room, with a crumpled cover, but not much else. There was a cupboard, a small chest of drawers, and a table on which some papers lay scattered. Max crept over to the table and picked up one of the papers. There were columns of figures which had been added up and ticked with a pencil.
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