Emily Eyefinger and the Secret from the Sea by Duncan Ball

Author:Duncan Ball
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

‘See what you’ve done!’ Mr Brakeswell screamed. ‘You silly boy! You’ve destroyed a priceless piece of artwork!’

‘I didn’t do it!’ Terry squealed. ‘I didn’t touch it!’

‘You’re a liar, you horrible boy! Get away from there!’

‘Did you kick that table, Terry?’ Ms Plump asked, pulling him away.

‘No, Miss, I didn’t do nuffin’! Honest I didn’t!’

Emily bent down and picked up the horse’s head.

‘Give me that!’ the man yelled, snatching it from her hands. ‘You dreadful kids! I never should have let you in here! How am I going to explain this? Get out of here before you break everything! Guards!’

‘You can glue it!’ Terry yelled. ‘You can fix it!’

The man glared at Terry. ‘No one in the world can fix this now,’ he said. ‘Most of it is dust now! You can’t glue dust back together! Guards! Guards!’

Museum guards streamed in the door as alarms started ringing.

‘Get these children out of here immediately!’ the man ordered. ‘Call the police! Clear everyone out of the museum!’

Ms Plump’s face was red with anger and embarrassment as she shooed the children out of the workshop. Emily looked behind her with her eyefinger as the man picked up bits of the horse. She saw him gather something up in his hands and look around quickly before stuffing it in his pocket.

‘I wonder what that was all about,’ she thought.

As the children walked back towards the entrance Janey whispered to Emily, ‘Didn’t I tell you Terry ruins every trip?’

‘Usually he does,’ Emily said, ‘but not this time.’

‘What do you mean? He broke that horse. I hope he goes to jail.’

‘I don’t think he broke it.’

‘But he was the only one near it.’

‘I know, but there’s something funny going on,’ Emily said. ‘Terry wasn’t close enough to that table to tip it over.’

‘Come on, Emily, tables don’t tip over all by themselves.’

‘I think this one did. This is a real mystery, Janey. Besides, that horse wasn’t the real one.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘It wasn’t a thousand years old. It had some plastic in the head. I saw it with my eyefinger when I picked it up.’

‘So?’

‘So they didn’t have plastic in ancient China, Janey. And the man hid something,’ Emily said. ‘He picked up something and put it in his pocket. I saw him with my eyefinger.’

‘Hey, maybe there was gold inside and he picked it up,’ Janey said. ‘There’s this movie and nobody knows where the money went and there’s this statue of a bird and –’

‘Janey, quiet!’ Ms Plump said.

The children picked up their school bags as everyone was leaving the museum. Police sirens were coming closer and closer. Emily thought about the broken horse and Terry and Mr Brakeswell. Suddenly she whispered to Janey, ‘Fishing line!’

‘Like for catching fish?’ Janey said. ‘What was that doing in a horse?’

‘It wasn’t in the horse, it was tied to the horse. It was very thin so no one would see it.’

Now there were six police officers getting out of their cars on the street outside. The old woman that Emily had seen earlier made her way through the crowd and out of the museum.

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