The Secrets of the Stone A Lottie Lipton Adventure by Dan Metcalf

Author:Dan Metcalf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

They reached the top of the stairs and came to the platform on which the clock stood. Lottie had never seen anything like it! The workings of the clock lay all about them, cogs and pendulums moving with loud clicks, ticks and tocks. These moved the arms on the clock faces, which were on the four sides of the tower, made from delicate milky white glass panes. Lottie couldn’t get over the size of them. One glass panel was missing, so Lottie peered through and saw London in the night time. She saw a huge city lit by streetlights, which looked like tiny pinpricks of white on a black canvas. The only thing she couldn’t see was the clock tower, which was directly below her.

“There’s the beauty!” said Reg. Looking up they could see the undersides of the bells that struck the hour. There were four smaller ones and one large one with a crack in it – this was Big Ben.

Lottie searched the belfry for clues, hoping to find a simple note or a riddle, but they couldn’t find anything.

“This is hopeless!” she cried. She inwardly told herself off after saying it. Would DI Blade give up? Of course not! He’d carry on through the night until the thief was in his grasp. Lottie looked again at the great bell. She noticed that around the rim of it were markings that she recognised.

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