The Case of the Secret Tunnel by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb [Holly Webb]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781847155627
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2014-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

It only took Maisie a couple of corners to work out where Bert was going – and she sighed. Of course – Baker Street station. All her dreams of finding Charlie Sparrow, and perhaps even the stolen paintings, slipped away. Bert was just going to work. Now that she got close, she could even see that he was wearing his dark uniform suit, with the brass buttons.

She watched as he entered the station, and then turned away with a sigh. “That was useless,” she muttered to Eddie, as they plodded back the way they’d come.

Eddie whined sympathetically. He was used to Maisie talking to him, and even though he didn’t understand what she was saying, he could tell that she wasn’t happy.

“You’re a very good and faithful assistant,” Maisie murmured, leaning down to rub his flyaway ear. “I wish we’d found something useful just now. Mr Grange thinks I’m a silly little girl who’s getting in his way. And I don’t think we’re going to change his mind by telling him that Bert Dodgson likes messing about with washing lines.” She frowned. “But that must mean something, mustn’t it? It can’t just be that he likes annoying old ladies. I know lodging with Miss Barnes must be horrible, but would he really go around stealing clothes to get back at her?” Maisie sighed. “If that’s what he’s doing, then maybe he isn’t part of the gang. He wouldn’t put them all at risk to do something so silly.”

Then she stopped, so suddenly that Eddie kept going for a few steps, until he realized she wasn’t with him any more. “It isn’t silly!” Maisie whispered. “Eddie, it’s not silly at all! What if it is like Gilbert Carrington’s case? The red clothes are a message! But what do they mean?” Maisie frowned to herself, as she opened the gate to the yard behind number 31. She was sure she was on the track of the mystery at last, but she couldn’t quite pin down how everything fitted together.

She had only been out for about quarter of an hour, and Gran was still dozing when Maisie walked into the kitchen and hung up the shawl. She quickly washed her feet – in freezing cold water, though, she couldn’t risk waking Gran by heating it on the stove – before putting her stockings and boots back on.

Then she sat at the kitchen table with her little notebook open in front of her, trying to work out what was going on. Eddie flopped down lovingly over her feet.

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