Five Get Into a Fix by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3

“We’ll come and ask permission of the owners,” yelled Dick, standing up, thinking this might be a good way of having a look at the house.

“You can’t. There’s no one else here but me!” shouted back the man. “I’m the caretaker, I tell you. I’ll set my dog on you all, if you don’t do what I say!”

“That’s funny,” said Dick to George, as the man waded back through the snow. “He says he’s the only one in the house - and yet we saw someone in the right-hand tower only a few minutes ago! The caretaker wouldn’t have had time to have got here from the tower - so he isn’t the only one in the house. There is someone in the tower as well. Queer, isn’t it?”

George had held Timmy by the collar all the time the man was speaking. Timmy had growled at the man’s angry voice, and George was afraid he might fly at him. Then, if the other dog appeared, there might be a fight! That would be dreadful! Timmy might get bitten again.

She and Dick tried their skis to see if they were still properly fixed, after their fall - and then went smoothly gliding off again. The others were waiting at the top of the hill for them.

“Who was that man? What was he shouting about?” demanded Julian. “Did he actually come from Old Towers?”

“Yes - and a surly fellow he was, too,” said Dick. “He ordered us to keep off that slope - said it belonged to Old Towers and he was the caretaker - and when we said we’d go and ask permission from the owners, he said he was the only one in the house! But we know different.”

“Yes. We do,” said Julian, puzzled. “Why should it matter to anyone if we ski down that particular slope? Are they afraid we might see something in the house - as we did! And why tell a lie and say there was no one else there? Did he sound like a caretaker?”

“Well - he didn’t sound Welsh!” said George. “And I should have thought that any owners would have chosen someone trustworthy from the village, someone Welsh, wouldn’t you? This is all rather mysterious!”

“And if you add to it all the strange noises and things, it’s extremely curious,” said Dick. “In fact, I feel it might be worth enquiring into!”

“No,” said Anne. “Don’t let’s spoil our holiday. It’s such a short one.”

“Well - I don’t see how we can enquire into the matter,” said George. “I’m certainly not going to that house while the dog is there - and there’s no other way of making enquiries - even if they would get us anywhere, which I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t!”

“I say - do you know that it’s almost one o’clock?” said Anne, pleased to change the subject. “Isn’t anybody hungry?”

“Yes - I’m ravenous!” said Julian. “But as I thought it was only about half-past eleven, I didn’t like to mention it! Let’s go in and have dinner.

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