INTO THE FOURTH AT TREBIZON by Anne Digby

Author:Anne Digby [Digby, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781899587209
Publisher: STRAW HAT
Published: 2011-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

TEN

WHISPER, WHISPER!

It sounded as though someone were trying to bash the door down. 'Wake up, you six!' yelled Aba.

The various huddled shapes in the various beds began to move. The door burst open and the tall Nigerian girl came in. She'd been for an early morning training run and was wearing a blue track suit with her county athletics colours on the sleeve. 'Listen, wake up. It's important!'

'Hey!' complained Tish from under the blankets. 'It's Sunday.'

'What's happened?' exclaimed Rebecca, yawning and blinking.

Sue reached for her glasses. 'What's going on, Aba?'

Ingrid sat bolt upright in bed, looking like a startled mermaid. Her plaits had come out in the night and her long blonde hair cascaded everywhere. 'Is it fire?'

'Tish!' Aba ran over to the bed and shook her shoulder.

'What?' Tish was wide awake. Margot and Elf came hurrying in from the room next door.

It was sensational news.

'Laura's standing against you! Her name's down!' Aba was still out of breath. She'd run all the way from the sports centre. 'There's a whole crowd of them out putting up posters and stickers! They must have been up since dawn!'

'You don't mean it!' gasped Rebecca, scrambling out of bed.

'Who is Laura?' asked Ingrid in bewilderment, still sitting bolt upright in bed as Rebecca squeezed past her. 'What is happening? What does Laura do?'

'She plays hockey!' retorted Rebecca, over her shoulder.

'Hockey? Oh!' A look of boredom crossed Ingrid's face. She watched them, all gathering round Tish's bed in a great huddle. Hockey? What a fuss.

'Sssh, please!'

She snuggled back down under the blankets and tried to get off to sleep again.

The others washed and dressed. They all ran over to the sports centre to look for themselves and then returned to the big kitchen on the ground floor to cook some breakfast and hold a conference.

Aba had gone off to discuss things with the two Annes and make her own plans. She was very upset.

'Tavistock are just doing it for revenge,' she told them. 'Because I stood against Laura in the summer, and I won. Now they're trying to make things nasty for Tish. They're saying really nasty things. It's all my fault! They must have been planning and planning to get their own back.'

'Tish will beat Laura!' said Ann Ferguson scornfully.

'It's pathetic!' agreed Anne Finch. 'Let's make a poster of our own.'

Down in the kitchen, they were all talking at once. Only Tish kept silent, frying up the sausages and eggs and looking thoughtful. Posters and lamp-post stickers had been scattered all along the route that led across the school grounds to the sports centre. They looked dashed-off and crude: DISH TISH, DOWN WITH COURT HOUSE; that sort of thing. It wasn't like Laura, somehow.

'What a sneaky way of going about things!' Sue was saying indignantly. 'Holding Laura's name back till the last minute –'

'They must have planned it all along!' interrupted Elf.

'–springing it on us at the last minute. They've had all week to work on an election campaign, when we didn't even know

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