Secret Letters at Trebizon by Anne Digby

Author:Anne Digby [Digby, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781899587308
Publisher: Straw Hat
Published: 2011-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

A VERY SECRET MEETING

'Come on, you two!' Elf was calling out, plaintively.

'I'd better stop Mara,' said Rebecca, quickly. 'Before she talks to anyone.'

'Yes, you better had. And I'll tell the others.'

Sue, Margot and Elf fell back in surprise as Rebecca shot past them. She sprinted across the grounds, blonde hair flying, in time to find Mara standing diminutively between Jenny and Fiona on the terrace outside dining hall.

They were listening attentively, two big, kind comfortable girls. They turned to greet Rebecca with bewildered smiles as she came racing up.

'Rebecca!' exclaimed Fiona, fresh-faced, eager to be friendly as always. 'Mara's just told us. That what really happened was your locker was burgled. But the only thing they took was your Time Chart.'

'That's right,' said Rebecca, with a brief nod. At least Mara hadn't told them the whole story yet. 'Quick, Mara, got to go.'

'It's really pathetic, Becky. We'll keep our eyes open,' said Jenny, in blank incomprehension. 'OK, Mara?'

'Yes. Thank you, Jennifer,' replied the Greek girl, looking pleased.

Rebecca dragged Mara away, trying to imagine either of those two towers of strength of Trebizon's hockey Second Eleven peering inquisitively through her diary or her private letters . . . and deciding that as suspects they were totally unbelievable. But then so was Elizabeth and so were the three As. All of them were unbelievable.

None of them, surely, could be her secret enemy - and yet one of them must be.

'We'll take one each, then?' said Tish, crisply. 'There's six of them. They'll each have a shadow. But they mustn't suspect. Sooner or later, whoever it is will give herself away. As long as we all stick like limpets!'

'How unpleasant,' said Sue.

'Must we?' sighed Rebecca.

'Of course we must!' said Elf.

Reluctantly, Margot and Mara nodded their agreement, too. Whether they liked it or not, somebody on their floor was behaving stupidly. They'd not be able to relax now, till they found out who. And why! It couldn't be tolerated.

It was the same Sunday morning and Action Committee's most secret meeting ever. They'd skipped church and cycled surreptitiously down to the town, two at a time. The prearranged meeting place was Mick's Diner, a cheap eating place on the sea front. Like the amusement arcade next door it was a no-go area, even to the Garth College boys. Nobody from school ever went there. It was the only safe place the six could think of. They needed to have a long meeting and they didn't want to put their quarry on her guard, whoever she was. The 'burglary' of the Time Chart had already got out. But she mustn't suspect they knew a lot more than that! And that, very soon, they'd be closing in on her.

'The person must be trying to find something out,' Margot had suggested, sipping her coke slowly. 'There's something she wants to know.'

'And pretty badly, by the look of it,' agreed Elf.

'But there's nothing to find out, they're just being nosey,' Rebecca had insisted. 'And anyway why take my Time Chart?'

'To find out who won the Crimean War!' joked Tish.

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