The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong

Author:Jeremy Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

clambering through the window. ‘I’ve got to get her.’

‘Supposing somebody comes?’ Tina asked anxiously.

‘They’re all out. I’ve got to get Dad’s phone back before it’s completely smashed.’

Tina only hesitated a fraction longer. ‘I’m coming too,’ she said and hopped in behind me.

There were quite a few tufts of fur lying around on the carpet, some black and some ginger. I found a bit of plastic and my heart dive-bombed into my boots and hid there squealing with terror.

‘There’s another bit over here,’ Tina called out helpfully, picking up a large but useless lump of ex-mobile phone. ‘At least it wasn’t the cat,’ she added.

To find Streaker all we had to do was follow the noise. The two animals seemed to have started Round Three upstairs. It was a bit spooky creeping around somebody else’s house, but I hardly had time to think about it. This was an emergency. If Dad’s phone was beyond repair, then I was going to end up a hospital case.

Tina and I had just reached the top landing when a door opened as if by magic and this woman appeared, wrapped in a towel, her face smeared all over with thick white paste and her head smothered in curlers. She looked so weird that I just stood there and screamed. So did she, and she could scream much louder than me. Even Streaker and the cat stopped to see what all the fuss was about.

The woman grabbed the first thing that came to hand, which happened to be a rather large and menacing laundry basket,

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