The Castle of Adventure by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Castles, Action & Adventure - General, Action & Adventure, Adventure and adventurers, Royalty, Juvenile Fiction, Adventure stories (Children's, Children's Books, General, Children's, young adult & educational, All Ages, YA), Westerns, Children: Grades 2-3, Games, Role Playing & Fantasy, Children's Fiction
ISBN: 9780330446303
Publisher: Macmillan Children's
Published: 2006-09-15T09:37:24.943000+00:00

Chapter 17

THINGS GO ON HAPPENING

THE three children watched the great stone slide into place like magic. It was an extraordinary sight. But Philip suddenly felt worried.

”Dinah! Let me have that spike. Move away. I hope to goodness it will move the stone back again!”

The boy pulled at it, but it remained fixed. He tried to move it the other way. He jerked it. It would not move at all.

”It closes the hole in the floor, but it doesn’t open it,” he said. He looked round for another spike or lever or handle-anything that he thought might open the hole to allow them to get out-but he could see nothing.

”There must be something!” he said, “or the man that hides here wouldn’t be able to come out at night. There must be something!”

The two girls were scared. They didn’t like being shut up like this in an underground room. Lucy-Ann felt as if all the suits of armour were watching her and enjoying her fright. She didn’t like them.

”Well, Philip, Jack will be along soon,” said Dinah, “and he’ll see the hole is shut and will work the spike upstairs in the hall to open it again. We needn’t worry.”

”I suppose he will,” said Philip, looking relieved. “You are an idiot, Dinah, messing about with things before you know what they do.”

”Well, you’d have done the same thing yourself,” retorted Dinah.

”All right, all right,” said Philip. He began to look all round the queer room. The suits of armour interested him. He wished he could put one on, just for fun!

An idea came to him. “I say, I’ll play a trick on Jack!” he said. “I’ll get inside one of these suits of armour, and hide. Then when Jack opens the hole and comes down don’t you tell him where I am-and I’ll suddenly step off one of these pedestals the armour is on, with a frightful clanking noise, and scare him stiff!”

The girls laughed. “All right,” said Lucy-Ann. “Hurry up. Do you know how to get into one?”

”Yes. I’ve tried one before, when we had one at school to examine,” said Philip. “It’s quite easy when you know how. You can help me.”

Before long Philip was in the suit of armour. He had the helmet on his head, and the visor over his face. He could see quite well through the visor, but nobody would know there was anyone inside the armoured suit! He got back on the pedestal with a lot of clanking. The girls giggled.

”Won’t Jack get an awful shock! I wish he’d come,” said Lucy-Ann.

”Are you comfortable, Philip?” asked Dinah, looking at her armoured brother standing quite still on his wooden pedestal, looking for all the world exactly like the others around.

”Fairly,” said Philip. “But golly, I wouldn’t much like to go to war in this-I’d never be able to walk more than a few yards! How they fought in them, those old-time soldiers, I really don’t know!”

The girls wandered round the room. They looked at the tapestry scenes.

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