The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Ibbotson Eva
Author:Ibbotson, Eva [Ibbotson, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 2008-04-08T21:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The Trembellows were very pleased with themselves. They had done good to the countryside; they had helped the Ministry of Animal Health to make the farms of Britain safe – and they had made a tidy sum of money.
‘Of course we could have got more, much more,’ said Lord Trembellow now, spearing a piece of bacon. ‘But I felt it was my duty to help those men.’
The family were having breakfast. Olive did not go to school – she was too clever to do lessons with ordinary children so she had a tutor who came in the afternoons – and Neville had come up from London.
‘It’s our best pit, Number Five,’ said Neville. ‘We could have got a fortune for the use of it.’
‘Yes, we could, Daddy,’ put in Olive.
‘That’s perfectly true, my little sugar plum,’ said Lord Trembellow, wiping a dollop of marmalade from his chin. ‘But sometimes one just wants to help. To do what is right and good.’
Lady Trembellow choked slightly on a corner of toast. She could not actually remember a single time when her husband had wanted to do what was right and good.
‘We can easily manage with the other four pits,’ said Lord Trembellow. ‘It’s only for three months and then Number Five will be in use again.’
‘Not all of it, surely,’ said Lady Trembellow. ‘Not the part where the cattle are buried.’
‘No, not that part, of course,’ said Lord Trembellow impatiently. ‘We would not want pieces of bone spoiling our gravel – the Trembellow gravel is famous for its purity. But Number Five is a very large pit. The waste ground at the back can be left undisturbed for a long time. And Dr Dale assured me that the carcasses would be buried with large amounts of lime and other chemicals. There’ll hardly be a trace of the beasts left – not just the soft parts will be dissolved but the skeletons too, and then it’ll be business as usual.’
Lord Trembellow took a sip of coffee and smiled at his family.
‘It couldn’t have worked out better,’ he said.
The vets had put ‘No Admittance’ signs at the entrance to the gravel pit and shut off access from the road. Number Five would be a kind of Sleeping Beauty, sealed off from the world while the infected animals decomposed in the soil. Then in three months’ time, Dr Dale had said, the Trembellow lorries could go in and out freely and the neighbourhood would be clean again.
But of course the real reason why Lord Trembellow was pleased was quite a different one.
Sir George’s cattle were gone forever. Everyone said that the old man had given up – that he would not attempt to restock Clawstone. In any case, the beasts were the only ones of their kind in Britain. He was a broken man, according to the rumours – and with Clawstone in strict quarantine and no visitors allowed, he would not be able to earn money by having Open Days. All the Bloodstained
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