Stolen Lake, The by Aiken Joan

Author:Aiken, Joan [Aiken, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Novel, Fiction
ISBN: 9781409044598
Publisher: RHCP
Published: 1981-01-01T02:00:00+00:00

Early next morning Mr Windward was informed that a letter had come from Her Mercy for Miss Dido Twite.

'Fancy her remembering my name!' said Dido, impressed, and she opened the note. It was an engraved card, bidding her present herself at the palace between the hours of four and five that afternoon.

'Humph!' said Windward suspiciously. 'I hope there isn't anything skimble-skamble about this. What do you think Dido had best do?' he said to the others. They were all assembled, shivering, in the cactus-gardens behind the Sydney Hotel.

'Tell you one thing; if I go, I ain't a-going to put on that fancy court rig again,' said Dido. 'I was perishing well frozen in it yesterday, except jist in the Palace, an' it's turned a lot colder today, and I felt a fool in it. I'll jist wear my breeks and duffel jacket.'

'Multiple and I had best come with you.'

Somehow, without further discussion, it had been accepted by all of them that Dido had better keep the appointment. Lieutenant Windward went on, 'Plum and Gusset can stay to keep an eye on poor Holystone.'

'Let's take a dekko at that big map of Cumbria that hangs in the hotel lobby,' said Dido. Try and see how long it'll take us to get to King Mabon's place, if we go.'

'What about the Grand Inquisitor, though?' said Mr Multiple. 'You say he didn't want us to go to Mabon.'

'I don't trust him,' said Lieutenant Windward. 'He looked about as straightforward as an adder. I reckon he has his own axe to grind.'

'So we diddle him too? Pretend we're just pretending to visit Mabon?'

'Just so's we don't get into a mux ourselves, about what we're a-going to do,' said Dido.

'I think maybe we should visit Mabon,' said Mr Multiple. 'Maybe he's a right 'un. There must be some good coves somewhere in these frampold parts. All we know about Mabon is, he took the lake because he had his daughter stole. You can't blame him for that.'

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